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21 September 2019

Biblioclast

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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