Absent peeking tip of bookmark, page ends 

minimally parted, distinguishing

having finished it from having never

started outburdens diverse colored tabs

in the contents, text, and the appendix;

the smoothed out dog-ears of former tenants

beckon obscurely; these distrait riddles

(did I quit halfway or stash my receipt

in the middle?) augment our abstracted

sight; readers misled through veins of aligned

spaces toward passages already read,

across countless jejune mysteries, seed

context for a final twist: They just might

have accidentally read the same book twice.