Ex-Lib, Otherwise As New
For a penny online, plus postage, I bought a slender book by a former Poet Laureate. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974.
The KC Public Library stamped the book “INV 1984” and, sometime later, “DISCARD.”
The unmarked checkout card still rested in a pocket that warned of charges for overdue books.
Not to worry.
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* Barry Basden has lately been writing 55-word microthings, some of which have been published in various ezines. Some have not.
