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The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

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Library Perils

 

Two magnetic monoliths

Guarded, strong, and cold

A place of treasures far beyond

The meager price of gold

 

Past the desk of miseries

Beyond the files loom

A horror of untold despair

Our hero’s met his doom

 

But down the stairs of hope he sprung!

He raced, that vital child!

Faster than a horror’s run

He ran into the wild

 

He fought the Frumious Bandersnatch

The vorpal sword he drew

He snicker-snacked and made it back

He even tamed the shrew

 

To Camelot he rode by night

To Xanadu by day

He stayed with Alice just a week

Then off with Frost till May

 

And slowly time lost meaning there

His cares began to fade

Our boy became a part of now

This world that he had made

 

Betwixt the shelves of memory

And on the dreamer’s plane

We lost our boy, that gentle soul

Never seen again

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Something in that last paragraph that is warmly nostalgic to me. I quite enjoyed the playful way in which you moved this story and I believe I will have to read it again in a day or two and see if the images it conjures remain the same.

 

Nicely done.

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