this is the same barnes & noble 

that i loved growing up

i would always beeline to the back 

to the young adult section

spend what felt like hours

but was likely only 1 

reading the back of every book

whose cover grabbed my eye

 

i won’t lie

i judge books by their covers

still do to this day

and i also won’t lie

there are a lot of good books with bad covers

that i would have missed out on 

if not personally recommended to me 

 

the young adult section isn’t in the back anymore

i’m always surprised to pass its’ new location,

by the romance section

where the cds used to live

now i explore a bit more then i did back in the day 

make pit stops in world history, new releases,

romance, and social sciences 

i still end my trip right back 

where it used to begin