Organize
shelve
alphabetize
date
published work
from early
eighteen forty five
till present
How do I justify
the time
room
and expense?
I thought to leave
them an inheritance
but realize I've spent
a fortune embezzling
the dividends of my dowry
breaking the bookcase
housing collateral
damage. How does one
revoke the irrevocable
trust inherently written
into the pathology
of bibliophilia?
