This post has been removed as a stipulation for submitting it in a poetry contest.
The Prompt: Middle Seat—It turns out that your neighbor on the plane/bus/train (or the person sitting at the next table at the coffee shop) is a very, very chatty tourist. Do you try to switch seats, go for a non-committal brief small talk, or make this person your new best friend?
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
“What were we born for if it was not to read each other” – beautiful line, beautiful sentiment.
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Though I have to admit to being a little bit testy when people try to talk to me when I’m reading.
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I know. And there are times I have hurried to pick up a book, afraid a person next to me would start talking, but actually those times are far in the past. I’ve never really sat next to anyone who was not interesting to talk to, and always, if they are Mexican, they give me their card and tell me I’m welcome to stay at their house if I ever visit or say to call if I come to Guad or invite me to whatever family house they are coming to visit…Men and women both extend these invitations and I’ve never gotten the vibes that it is a “pick-up.”
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Obviously I should have read it one more time. Obviously it’s a loved one. Doesn’t matter who. Love it, at any rate.
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Ha! Laura, I just dialled up “comments” so I could remark on those same lines:
What were we born for
if it was not to read each other?
Wish I’d written that!
Judy, who’s the “you” that comes in in the last stanza?
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Well, again poetic license. It is Duckie, but actually he met me in the states with the flower. I wanted to be coming back to Mexico, so I combined happenings in two different trips! It is meant to be someone the narrator in the poem cares for.
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Guess I should read the comments before I start copy and pasting passages
What were we born for
if it was not to read each other?
Love this. Thanks!
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Thanks, Joatmon. Guess it was I good thing I didn’t edit that line out, huh?
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