“Show me the place.”
Duke Senior
in As You Like It (2.1)
54: Those Bookstores Gone: 1969*–Now
We once devoted Friday nights
To haunting stores that featured books.
Back then one of my favorite sights?
A bookstore pile —requiring looks.
The stores were local—some were chain.
And some sold used, and some sold new.
I couldn’t make the thing more plain:
We found so much to get into.
But now so many stores are gone—
Our choices have declined, for sure.
But we still go—we struggle on—
Though much diminished is our tour.
*the year of our marriage
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