{"id":73616,"date":"2020-06-28T01:45:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73616"},"modified":"2020-06-28T01:45:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:45:45","slug":"a-monument-to-ephemeral-facts-hour-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-monument-to-ephemeral-facts-hour-17\/","title":{"rendered":"A MONUMENT TO EPHEMERAL FACTS – Hour 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

A MONUMENT TO EPHEMERAL FACTS<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My father gave me a beautiful poster print<\/span><\/p>\n

from his tool and dye shop at Xerox<\/span><\/p>\n

when I was a senior in high school<\/span><\/p>\n

picturing colorful hardcover books stacked in a pyramid<\/span><\/p>\n

and beneath this obelisk an epitaph:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA Monument To Ephemeral Facts\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It was beautiful, and I was offended<\/span><\/p>\n

The same way I was offended by the Nook reader<\/span><\/p>\n

not one atom in my being desiring to trade<\/span><\/p>\n

the warm familiarity of turning pages<\/span><\/p>\n

for the cold clinical brightness of a tablet screen<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I was young then, but oh how certain I was<\/span><\/p>\n

that I was a crone hag bent on traditional wildness<\/span><\/p>\n

unwilling to trade any convenience for the magick of my tools<\/span><\/p>\n

the way, I\u2019m sure, 20th century writers clung to their manual typewriters<\/span><\/p>\n

too aware that their woods was lacking in electrical outlets<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But I loved my library in those days<\/span><\/p>\n

no matter how many flights of stairs I had to haul it up<\/span><\/p>\n

no matter how many broken bookshelves needed replacing<\/span><\/p>\n

that was nearly a decade ago, maybe more<\/span><\/p>\n

my hands lost count of the calendar pages<\/span><\/p>\n

and today I\u2019m a top floor treehouse girl<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My library fell away in chunks<\/span><\/p>\n

with only 5 small boxes of books to brave these stairs<\/span><\/p>\n

and damn, man, it was serious, 2020 has me in my 30s<\/span><\/p>\n

with all my druthers I\u2019d go back to 19 and tell me mean<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be a Luddite, Bunny, an online library is fine<\/span><\/p>\n

books are obsolete baby, give your back a break.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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