Saturday, April 19, 2025

Libraries

Libraries
no longer exclusive
to bookworms and loners,
now catering to the homeless,
their imaginary antagonists,
and laptop fop yap
in imaginary offices.

Libraries
where immigrants argue
Abraham brain salad,
ignorant of the intellectual breadth
of their surroundings,
comprehending nothing
beyond a bible.

Libraries
should have
in-house psychologists
and philosophers.
The new breed
of library brains
so weighted by hair color
and facial metal
to be effective
with defectives.


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