very blank verse

I am
tired
of books that are in verse
so that
they sound more
deep
and so that they can
reach an acceptable
page limit.

This was occasioned, btw, by Yellow Star, which was perfectly adequate but by no means great. I mean, it's amazing that Syvia survived the ghetto, but the writing didn't lift this above other Holocaust stories. And the decision to write this in verse was, well, unnecessary. I would have preferred a straight transcription of the recordings of Syvia's story.