In the barbershop I often walked past
I used to see fantasy books through the window
Sword-bearing elves and chimerical beasts on the covers
GAME OF THRONES, LAST UNICORN and ELF QUEEN OF SHANNARA
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Very intriguing story, told in few words that flow so well. Your observant eye amazes me. So the new book was all about 9/11? You think he lost someone then? I think you should send your two poems to the barber.
Because of the angle, I could not tell what the new book was about. I could only see that it looked different from the fantasy books. Maybe he lost someone or had a brush with losing somebody... not due to 9/11 but due to something comparably disastrous that happened in his personal life.
In any case he lost his taste for reading fantasy. My surmises as to why can be found in the answering poem.