Not Enough Time: Wish List
I imagine you sitting there with a notepad or the back of a phone bill, pen ready to jot down what you're going to get me this year. I know you meant to get out earlier, avoid the long checkout lines, the aggressive cart pushers, and me-me-mes. You wanted to know instinctively what I'd really enjoy opening, and not have to ask.
It's okay. I forgive you, and I'm letting you off easy.
This year, while Christmas is sparkling like a big shiny Tylenol, and you are slipping and careening out of control on icy sidewalks, one year closer to a nasty sciatica, keep in mind that you don't need to get me anything, not a thing.
All I want, is time. More of it, like Veruca Salt wants attention, I want time. Lots and lots and lots of it!
If I had it, I'd have been able to read the following for possible inclusion in the top ten books of the year list:
for more memory. Can you get me that? Mine's almost full, I think.
It's okay. I forgive you, and I'm letting you off easy.
This year, while Christmas is sparkling like a big shiny Tylenol, and you are slipping and careening out of control on icy sidewalks, one year closer to a nasty sciatica, keep in mind that you don't need to get me anything, not a thing.
All I want, is time. More of it, like Veruca Salt wants attention, I want time. Lots and lots and lots of it!
If I had it, I'd have been able to read the following for possible inclusion in the top ten books of the year list:
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
- The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
- The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
- Alantejo Blue by Monica Ali
- The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
for more memory. Can you get me that? Mine's almost full, I think.
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