Bryan Prince

Note: I wrote this several years ago when Bryan Prince, Bookseller, was voted the best independent bookstore in Canada in 2001. This was a very striking idea for my sense of my hometown. I was quite proud that it was being recognized (I sold my first self-published collection of poetry there). Unfortunately, they closed in 2018 after almost thirty years in the business (there is now a store called King W. Books there).

But I have my memories...and this poem... -KD

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I have an urge

(never to repeat again)

to rhyme "Hamilton"

with "Machiavellian".

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I blame your books

for my curiosity:

weekdays in prose;

weekends in poetry.

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I even gave myself

a personal assignment:

my first poetry collection

(four stocked on consignment).

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With my surname's weight,

a link to that name,

I balanced my time;

made work without fame.

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I have an urge

(perhaps to repeat again)

to thank you Machiavels

deep inside Hamilton.

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