DON'T GO INTO THE LIBRARY



 DON'T GO INTO THE LIBRARY

The library is dangerous -

Don't go in. If you do


You know what will happen.

It's like a pet store or a bakery -


Every single time you'll come out of there

Holding something in your arms.


Those novels with their big eyes.

And those no-nonsense, all muscle


Greyhounds and Dobermans,

All non-fiction and business,


Cuddly when they're young,

But then the first page is turned.


The doughnut scent of it all, knowledge,

The aroma of coffee being made


In all those books, something for everyone, The deli offerings of civilization itself.


The library is the book of books

Its concrete and wood and glass covers


Keeping within them the very big

Very long story of everything.


The library is dangerous, full

Of answers. If you go inside,


You may not come out

The same person who went in.


Alberto Rios

Reference: poets.org/poem/dont-go-library, 2017. 





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