A used book
Observes
The collective enjoyment
Of all its past readers
And offers it anew
When you open its cover,
An inanimate philanthropist of sorts
Giving away facts, fiction or opinion
To possibly decades of readers
Never pretending to be anything
Other than what it is
A used book.

06/15/2005

Posted on 06/15/2005
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