I was in the building
when the auditors arrived
year zero
lights out
advanced decay
the news was grim
no-one survived
all reader enquiries
were stuffed into body bags
and buried in the basement
with the unclassified documents
I swabbed the whole apparatus
with anti-static juice
but the questions
just kept rolling in
they were arriving
on the October timetable
though this was early June
I tried to make up the distance
before my arrest
closed me down
then they decided
that to save the library
they had to burn all the books
it smelled of hopelessness
and it smelled of betrayal
it smelled of Auschwitz
and it smelled of fear
.
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