a poet who taught college
night  school ventured out  
during the day to find rare
books of poetry to assign
his class to read out loud;
a small bookshop destined
to fail opened up on the
sunny north eastern corner;
selling no books at all, the
enterprising intellectual
proprietor resigned to the
inevitable but was surprised
when the poet [seldom
seen during the day & she
had never seen him before]
burst through the door &
demanded she order all the
books on a handwritten list,
shoving it in her face; so
overwhelmed she stayed
late at the bookstore on the
telephone & computer
ordering the rare & obscure
books; that night the class full
of wanna-be poets groaned in
despair at the poet telling them
to read every book on the list
& the wherewithal to find them