Tombstone

Today I was walking through a graveyard and I discovered a tombstone shaped like a book

What a wonderful idea I thought this was, for what describes life more perfectly than a book?

Meeting someone for the first time is the exposition

general and vague

sometimes interesting and sometimes not

As you get to know them there is a sort of rising action

character development

internal struggles and antagonists

Resulting in a climax, the moment in which you love them more than any other

I believe this occurs with everyone we meet, even if we don't believe we love them

there is a single moment in which we do

Sometimes books have a happy ending

but sometimes they don't

They always end though

it's sad when they do

and it's hard to put a good book down

But that's the most important part, when the book in its entirety has become a part of you

and you are now free to read more books

and although those books will end

and the ending may be happy, but it may be sad

it will always

always

be worth the read
 

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I sure hope someone is clever with my tombstone.

Not a book of course, that would be too obvious.

Something far more original.

Perhaps a stone toilet.

The lid can say “He was a tough one, but he finally dropped”

and as a footnote, “loving husband, always left the seat down”

and of course

bonus points if the toilet works