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Hootie and Hemingway
i won’t give business to
a bookstore that plays “modern pop-rock”
I get disoriented; jumpy when
I picture
kafka bopping his head along to Natasha bedingfield
mark twain tapping his feet to nickelback
bronte sisters doing the conga line to Justin timberlake
dickens gyrating to rihanna
Steinbeck humming along with lifehouse
Austen enjoying norah jones
Dostoevsky snapping his fingers to matchbox twenty
i worry about
the physical health of these authors
stuck in their pages, forced
to listen to our modern masterpieces
I feel
Ashamed
bookstores that play gently
classical or jazz
show concern and caring for the authors
they house; respect
it’s like
nuggets of gold sitting haphazardly in
a landfill
Shakespeare doesn't like
Shakira.
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