Aimless Love - Billy Collins 
First 37 pages

I kind of switched it up a bit, I can't seem to stay on one book for that long without picking up a new one to try and read as well. I was at Powell's Book Store in down town Portland last night, on I guess what you can say a date, when a stranger suggested this book to me, so I thought why not?

I don't read all that much poetry, throughout high school they made it sound so complicated, like poems are like math equations and you have to find the right answer on how the author wanted it to come across as. So therefore I chose this book as the genre I would never normally read.

So far, I think I have fallen in love, ironic. The poem Aimless Love is one of the most accurate pieces I have ever read. He talks about falling in love with everything in his daily life, from the seamstress to the dead mouse brought in by the cat. Just the fact he points out all the things you can fall in love with, not just lust, but love. I feel like I do that way too often, with just my coffee, the beautiful boy at the coffee shop making my coffee, even to the way my crappy apartment has the prettiest view if you just stand in the right spot, pretty much need to press your face to the window to see it.

His writing is making me want to carry around a small note pad and write down notes to myself as I notice them, (totally might by the way.) There is beauty in things and I really am happy I picked up this book, I've been in a slump that I can't seem to quite figure out but this book, I feel like I can make the best out of it.

As for now, I'm calling this a night.