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how to seduce a librarian

read to them
literature a litany
of love sounds
and soft words

write to them
a collection of letters
carefully placed one
next to the other
the comma is the breath
when you pause
to listen
is how to love
a librarian

take them
at a bookstore
after closing
the fiction falls
from the shelves
and the floor
is a flood of ink
and paper under
your bodies

to seduce
a librarian
slip a
story in
and catalog it
a living archive