Advice to the Reader

Prepare yourself.

  Is the light good?

  Are you seated comfortably?

  Is the sound level one

  that will allow you to

  forget for awhile where you are

  and submit to this singular experience?

  Banish distraction.

  Choose an approach.

  Will it be a hearty familiar meal

  with maybe a hint of new flavors,

  or a feast of discovery and surprise?

  Something, you chew on and savor?

  Or fast food that fills you with empty

  calories that you wolf down quickly?

  Select carefully.

  Commence reading.

  Are you skimming the surface

  or plunged into consternation

  wending a complex twisting trail?

  Can you trawl the meaning

   and bring some value back?

   Savor serendipity.