Friday, April 22, 2016

Overdue at The King County Library

In the lower right corner of page 9 the simple hand stamped ten words proclaimed her emancipation.
                  This is no longer
                        property of
                King County Library System
Red letters of a rubber stamp  assure me I am not in possession of stolen property, or worse a runaway from a library 1,924 miles away from here. Lt. Joe Bookman will not knock on my door to question me about instant coffee and what I know about the missing book, How to Write A Sentence and How To Read One. 

She is  free to roam the world and never be over due to return to her Dewey Decimal System place on the  metal shelf of a concrete building in damp, misty Seattle. This work of art of Stanley Fish, Professor of Law, will live in the morning sunshine, on my wooden bookshelf, patiently available to inspire me to aspire to craft a fine  sentence.