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Baseboards lined with spiderwebs That shimmer in the slanted sun Next to worn, wooden chairs Feeling sturdier than ever Shelves and shelves of Outdated textbooks and encyclopedias Crinkly and brown and yellowed How many trees went into these pages This forest rearranged And defaced by movable type
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Oct 5, 2020
Oct 5, 2020 at 5:02 PM UTC
The Library 2
Baseboards lined with spiderwebs That shimmer in the slanted sun Next to worn, wooden chairs Feeling sturdier than ever Shelves and shelves of Outdated textbooks and encyclopedias Crinkly and brown and yellowed How many trees went into these pages This forest rearranged And defaced by movable type
whpayne
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20/M/Chicago
Oct 5, 2020
Oct 5, 2020 at 5:02 PM UTC
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