i haunt used bookstores
the few that remain
in this city or
any city now
that Amazon &
Kindle & poor
reading habits
are wiping them out
yesterday at
the state's biggest
used bookstore
the books looked lonely
little yellow paperbacks
crowded on shelves
crying "i was the best
selling book of 1955"
or "my author was the
toast of New York City
in the Sixties" or
"this historian won
the Pulitzer Prize"
there was no one
but me to listen
as the buyers hit
the used DVD
section stocking
up on movies based
on old TV shows
& classic films
& out-of-print
novels
so many lonely
old books &
so few readers
wouldbe authors
ought to meditate
on this
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