{"id":14920,"date":"2023-09-13T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=14920"},"modified":"2023-09-17T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T16:09:11","slug":"poems-by-nolo-segundo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=14920","title":{"rendered":"poems by Nolo Segundo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Book Lady<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She travels with grace<\/p>\n<p>through the caverns of books,<\/p>\n<p>searching for the neglected,<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>the forgotten, the abandoned,<\/p>\n<p>then slowly, sadly,<\/p>\n<p>she pulls them off the shelves<\/p>\n<p>and places them in the box of fate<\/p>\n<p>destined now either for adoption<\/p>\n<p>or a re-incarnation in some lesser form&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>perhaps as paper bags or toilet paper&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>what once had been thoughts and poems<\/p>\n<p>and even magical words\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lonely Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I took a book out of the library,<\/p>\n<p>Where it had stood amongst<\/p>\n<p>Its brethren for 25 years, unused,<\/p>\n<p>unborrowed\u2014I know this because<\/p>\n<p>Its pages were crisp, never bent<\/p>\n<p>By a greedy reader, and were yellow<\/p>\n<p>From time\u2019s effect, a drug that<\/p>\n<p>Ages books as it does readers\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Someday I guess all books, both<\/p>\n<p>The virgins and the overly used,<\/p>\n<p>Even abused, will be no more: all<\/p>\n<p>Replaced by sterile zeros &amp; ones,<\/p>\n<p>And my future self will never again<\/p>\n<p>Have the soft pleasure of turning<\/p>\n<p>Crisp pages and feeling tangible<\/p>\n<p>The words of a stranger\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book Lady &nbsp; She travels with grace through the caverns of books, searching for the neglected,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1653,77],"tags":[1654,1123,1669],"class_list":["post-14920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-77","category-english","tag-egophobia-77","tag-english","tag-nolo-segundo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-3SE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14921,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions\/14921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}