prospectus

or, the walking catalogue

you have to figure Roman books

tucked into togas

or Rodin’s Baptist parading

bronzed and nude the library shelves

before you will have to admit

these purblind borrowers

of the State’s time and attention

why yes shrieks the one less human-looking than the rest

we are the Harpies

that is the classical education we provide

and for the modern Hebrew influence on your culture

a weariness of many books