Books About Belano

Yesterday
I ordered
my first book

about Belano.

I've had 
a bunch of those
on a wishlist
for years
but never got around
to buying one
until now.

Belano became
my favorite writer
upon the instant
of reading him
for the first time,
and I started buying
all his books
as I found them.

I don't have any author
better represented
in my collection,
and yet
aside from online articles
(far too many 
far too comfortable
asserting this obsession
with Belano
is undeserved)
I guess

I was reluctant
to read about him
in a book
rather than read
Belano himself.

It puts him further
into history
and he was already
snuggly there
when I found him.

Which is to say
in a few weeks

I will have one,
and I will have read it,
and another threshold
will have been crossed.

Alas.