First Novel

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 01, 2015

First Novel

Just before Christmas
Writing feverishly
By hand
Designing cover
Eventually seven pages
Stuck together
First chapter of first novel
Tale of Two Cities
Compelling title
Old West stagecoach
Traveling back and forth
Rawhide the driver
Jake riding shotgun
Fighting off
Bandits and Indians
Tough tobacco chewing dudes
Sure to be a best seller
When guests arrived
Proudly displaying
My book
Urging each and every one
To read it
Most didn’t
With a smile and pat on my head
What a sweet, smart lad
Decades later
Finally launching
First literary effort
This week
At Edith Wharton’s
The Mount
Took all this time
To get up
The gumption