The B.EAST! A Magazine of Intellect and Imagination Winter Issue | Page 48

Standing to attention, military personnel, serious and threatening.

No longer owned by their authors, but their pages desire an owner

Children pass by, pushing in the neat rows infuriating the library ladies

who follow behind straightening the rows

So many lives and stories in one building.

Promising the world, if you would only stretch their backs

So they can get a glimpse of yours

Stick gum between their pages,

And most of all do not judge them by their cover.

The Unheard Voice of the Book