26-10-01 (Paris)

 

 

Book Lovers

 

What difference are

Gargantuan libraries

From oversized, expensive

Cars? Features which usually individuate

Rooms dwarfed by standing walls of

Water paper ready at every moment to

Crush + drown visitors.

What can the purpose be?

Impress friends + callers?

Too gluttonous for research purposes.

Impress self?

No, book collecting is a habit

Like any other. Doomed, crazy,

Functional-alcoholic, chain-smoking

Addicts open storefronts to enable,

To ennoble their trafficking.

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