Reason To Read Poem by Douglas Scotney

Chronic historians,
for mojo,
start books halfway through,
then mine the first half
for what they've missed
and need to know.

I'm one.
I did it with Tolstoy -
read War, mined Peace -
for Peace, had little mojo.

I started 'Ulysses'
in the pub before four
and mined the morning at need -
unearthed, for example,
Bloom's breakfast kidney greed.

Ps. Of serendipity, a case:
'thallein' is 'to bloom' in Greece;
you'll mine it mining 'grace'.