Friday 19 May 2017

Ode to the Librarian (22/10/16)

You make order out of chaos
So unassumingly
And live in a place
That I’d much rather be,
As keeper of the ledger
Of the cathedral of the mind,
Guiding the lost
To the books they cannot find,
Or prescribing a dose
Of something new to read
As the literary nurse

That every town needs.

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