when i went to my local library, to my horror
i found no books that are in my personal library...
to my astonishment i found Thomas Mann's
Dr. Faustus -
                        but still, in my possession as extensive
it is in its modesty i found only two books
i'd gladly reread - Ezra Pound's Cantos and Bertrand
Russell's the History of Western Philosophy -
harsh, isn't it? only two books - from a collection of
some sizeable amount, and a good fraction well
established in my head to have made tattoos into -
like that joke: what's the door most frequently
opened in the house? the refrigerator door.
so it is with a library - but there's a twist...
how fortunate you will be if the dictionary isn't
the answer... but a book that you would reread
and know all the words; so as you can see, i have
my two books i'd establish strength with,
even if it meant waging such a war with the Koran.