For all the Girls Who Read

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“So, what do you go for in a girl?”

He crows, lifting a lager to his lips

Gestures where his mate sits

Downs his glass

“He prefers tits

I prefer *ss.

What do you go for in a girl?”

 

I don’t feel comfortable

The air left the room a long time ago

All eyes are on me

Well, if you must know

 

I want a girl who reads

Yeah. Reads.

I’m not trying to call you a chauvinist

Cos I know you’re not alone in this

but…

 

I want a girl who reads

Who needs the written word

& uses the added vocabulary

She gleans from novels and poetry

To hold lively conversation

In a range of social situations

 

I want a girl who reads

Whose heart bleeds at the words of Graham Greene

Or even Heat magazine

Who’ll tie back her hair while reading Jane Eyre

and goes cover to cover with each Waterstones three for two offer

but I want a girl who doesn’t stop there

 

I want a girl who reads

Who feeds her addiction for fiction

With unusual poems and plays

That she hunts out in crooked bookshops for days and days and days

She’ll sit addicted at breakfast, soaking up the back of the cornflakes box

And the information she gets from what she reads makes her a total fox

Cos she’s interesting & unique

& her theories make me go weak at the knees

 

I want a girl who reads

 

A girl whose eyes will analyse

The menu over dinner

Who’ll use what she learns to kick my ass in arguments

so she always ends the winner

But she’ll still be sweet and she’ll still be flirty

Cos she loves the classics and the classics are dirty

So late at night she’d always have me in a stupor

As she paraphrases the raunchier moments from the works of Jilly Cooper

 

See, some guys prefer *sses

Some prefer tits

And I’m not saying that I don’t like those bits

But what’s more important

What supercedes

For me

Is a girl a with passion, wit and dreams

So I want a girl who reads.

 

Done