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# Potpourri
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- Published: 2022-04-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: when I was young, it was Jules Verne Children of Captain Grant I studied it as one might learn a poem or a chant I read it back and forth, and more knew many parts by heart the characters I did adore I relished every...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

when I was young, it was Jules Verne  
Children of Captain Grant  
I studied it as one might learn  
a poem or a chant  
I read it back and forth, and more  
knew many parts by heart  
the characters I did adore  
I relished every part

Three Musketeers did follow suit  
as I grew older still  
and D'artagnan's noble pursuits  
each swordfight and each kill  
Milady, evil as they come  
and Constance, her sad toll  
the Cardinal, and Buckingham  
adventure for the soul

Then Asimov, his robot tales  
(I still contribute to his sales)  
Then Dune, breathtaking story  
An ageless allegory  
In thousands, I can't recount  
the Book Club gave me a discount  
but there is one that does stand out  
so I'll no longer beat about

It's Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson  
the coiner of the Metaverse  
It is my job today; for some,  
the reason that I took to verse  
most prescient, and most relevant  
no, not the most poetic  
no other writer -- adamantly  
captured the esthetic  
of what the future was to be  
and so Snow Crash -- the one for me

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2802457-Best-Reads