Thursday, November 7, 2013

empty boxes

a store
selling empty
boxes
and containers,
shelves
and webbed
baskets
has replaced
the book
store.
mark twain is
gone.
Hemmingway
and
plath.
Whitman has
disappeared
into
the leaves
of grass.
holden is lost,
no longer
catching
children
in the rye.

2 comments:

Sara Leigh said...

Ah, you've been to the Container Store, but you expected Barnes & Noble.

Stephen Chute said...

it's a sad world without book stores....who needs another empty box?