Book Terrors...! III

Here's the deal:

The Hungry Mind consumes all,
the Hungry Mind is like a sponge,
the Hungry Mind will never give up,
and quite frankly, I simply
don't understand
how the Hungry Mind can ever
be sated.

The Hungry Mind is what we think of
when we consider literary fiction,
the kind of storytelling that isn't
satisfied with anything less than
an expansive view of even
the most common things.

The Hungry Mind is what turned
the Trojan War, the legends
of great heroes like Beowulf,
King Arthur and Robin Hood,
the Three Musteteers,
Sherlock Holmes & Hercule Poirot,
Doc Savage & Superman,
Jason Bourne & Jack Bauer
into folklore and literature.

The Hungry Mind cannot be
turned off or lost;
it's Crime & Punishment
in the year 2666.

Even if everyone stops reading,
someone will still tell stories,
and all of it will come back.

The Hungry Mind is mankind's
indomitable legacy.

The Hungry Mind
is a state of mind,
the incurable mind,
the precocious
and pretentious
and that little voice
inside all of us,
goading us on,
the devil and the angel
sitting on our shoulders,
waiting to see which side
will win, the battle
of good & evil,
a game of backgammon.

The Hungry Mind
is constant as the Northern Star,
and makes all the world a stage.

I feel pretty good about it.