Why did I buy that book
The woman in the dunes
Was it that I was taken there
By that person on twitter
Whose posts I cared for
Or was it something to do
With you, and our times
Running down the sandbanks
Or was it the write-up
On the bookshops online page
Yes, those words
Existentialist
And Japan
And one of their most lauded
Literary stars
It will arrive tomorrow
But that’s not the reason
No, I do have self-restraint
But it wasn’t my recommendation
It came out of the ether
