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In the spring of 2011, I bought a copy of my teacher Elise Paschen's
poetry Infidelities from a used book store at Lakeview, Chicago.
The title page of the book has Elise's autograph and a note says,
"For Kitty & Harry, Abiding presences throughout a childhood on Scott
Street! All my love, Elise 10/18/96". Later, Elise told me that copy
was for a renowned Chicago based architect Harry Weese (1915-1998) and
his wife. The famous buildings he designed in Chicago include the Time
& Life Building, the Latin School, and the Metropolitan Correctional
Center. Unfortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Weese past away a few years later.
Whenever I enter a used book store
I feel quite sad
Books once belonging to other people
End here now
I love books, I collect many of them
It is my dream
To have a study room like a small store
Worn and torn
Every book must have been over-read
And rows of books
Are as ragged as indented sierras
My thought flies
Whimsically along this poetic intonation
The undulate skyline
Books are for sale, thoughts are for sharing
I gather books
Only for someday to lose, to disperse them
Men are mortal
The desire for knowledge is limitless
Yet a book
Is very concrete, with an appealing limitation
Like a building
Always designed for some reason, for people
To dwell
To work, to live, to take shelter, to run
Repeated routines
The transfer of possession is unavoidable
Books have no
Fidelity to their owners. Books are promiscuous
Owners only enjoy
The ephemeral beauty and the inevitable nostalgia
Like in a city
Buildings are re-sold, remodeled, yet some become
Landmarks
When I browse on a row of books, some title always pops out
Glittering
Like the golden glass curtain wall of the Time & Life Building
Outstanding
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