Ballad For The Bibliophile

(All book titles are in Italics)

In 1984, in the Animal Farm

There lived A Horse Whisperer

Who told the tale of the Arabian Nights

To Midnight Children.

The child Jonathan swiftly began Gulliver’s Travels

With Three Men in a Boat

And was Gone with the Wind,

And found the Treasure in Islands.

Grew up to be The Man Who Would be King.

He built a Ghost Ship

And set on Sail Away towards the east.

He made the Discovery of India

Wherein he got Tied Up in Knots

Now he lives with his (My) Family and Other Animals in a brown house

Whom he ferries in his Ferrari

When the children were Growing Up in The Brown House

He left An Impossible Inheritance.

He took to Philosophy Made Simple

And disposed of his Ferrari.

He took a Long Walk to Freedom

And took A Train to Pakistan.

He died a Sudden Death

And the epitaph read

Here lies The Monk Who Sold the Ferrari