Requiem for a Bookshop

Free books
Books by the pound
Great books for $2.00
Books by local authors
Books by those who don’t get into bookshops

Art and tarot
UFOs and weed
Hunter and Burroughs
Billy Bragg and H.L.T. Quan
Zines and chaps
Stickers and postcards
Signed and rare
The weird, the silenced, the banned, and the marginal

And poetry
So much poetry
Enough for a heart-full

A cultural nexus
A haven and open to all
Events, outreach, and selfless
In a town that always has to fight for artistic recognition
A town with an inexhaustible capacity to shoot itself in the foot
In a country where the National Endowment for the arts is 0.003% of the federal budget
A country that needs far more art and far less weapons

How to define a great bookshop?
By how much it will be missed.

Image by claston from Pixabay

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