Steve Kane has me tagged. This is what I must do.

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence.
3. Post the text of the next three sentences on your blog.
4. Name of the book and the author.
5. Tag three people.

So:

1. I look to the pile of books to the right of my keyboard. Under some pages I printed out is Kostas Karyotakis’s Battered Guitars, a books of poems translated by William W. Reader and Keith Taylow.

2. I turn to page 123. Ah, the poem, “Disgust.”

3. I read through the poem. Ouch. It’s sharp, cruel, angry, dark. Typical Karyotakis. I type the next three sentences here:

Dance of demi-virgins, two-by-two,
with stiff bodies, triumphantly,
officiously, ceremoniously,
you strut to dance hall and music school.

There you strike innumerable poses.
Like the moon, romantic.

4. See 1.

5. I tag Dean, Debra and Katrina.