literary Dublin and more

LIBRARIES(the Last Word

Before books become antiquarian artifacts

stored in unread tomes on dusty shelves

while the young stare @digital txts and GOOGLE

perhaps you remember the silences of libraries?

That serious study of tomes leatherbound and ponderous/

treatises upon topics now of another age

where handbound and handmade were one and the same

and a library was akin to a monastery.That is lost.

Libraries of old held secrets for the seeker

Dewey decimal or pre- explorations of themes and authors

long departed,leaving only their writings as clues

to lives of high adventure.I grew up inside my local library

My world expanded beyond dull suburbs with every author.

Now @my local car dealer,a pile of authors sit as proof of literacy-

yet were they to have been thrown out/and are only there for show.

Much like those fake books in politicians offices/or homes for sale

Too much has been lost-those silences are priceless

and when we come to digital silence....