The Third Dimension

3-D movies are all the craze.  No matter your opinion on the medium, you can't deny the fact that they're rampaging across our screens.  But 3-D books?  That's another matter.

If books were written in 3-D,

A silly fad they all would be.

Words would leap off every page

And build around you like a cage.

They’d zoom and zig and zag and zap

Then bop you hard right in the cap.

Reading books would be perilous,

But publishers would act querulous.

Would a boulder racing off the sheet

Make an experience much more neat?

Or would it just get in the way

Of reading a fine word display?

Would letters popping right off the page

Advance the plot in the modern age?

Or would the added dimension

Hinder your reading retention?

I think written 3-D fiction

Will not make any addiction.

At best seeing it will hurt our heads

As we lay reading in our warm beds.