RICHARD SCHNAP // Make Believe

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Make Belive

It was a discount bookstore
That sold paperbacks of classics
But made more money on porn

As if the great works of literature
Couldn’t compete with the fictions
Of pretty girls spreading their legs

And the men who bought them
Never looked you in the eye
When they paid and left quickly

Maybe eager to get home
To tear off the shrink-wrap
Of their counterfeits of love

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Richard Schnap is a poet, songwriter and collagist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His poems have most recently appeared locally, nationally and overseas in a variety of print and online publications.