These old wooden shelves smile when burdened
with books, but soon they will smile no more!
I figure pound for pound trees are turned in
to pulp, then paper, then tattooed over
with copyrights and Romanized alphas
and betas to become books at the end
of an endless journey, these labia
of particle board find a timber friend
in books made of a similar substance,
but new books made of plus and minus signs
on steel wafers have filched the paper’s stance
as history’s keeper, the shelf resigns
to the hard drive as the book does the same
to the PDF, both demit in shame.
"Book Shelves" by Kenneth Larot Yamat
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