Ebrary / by Brian Kunde

Ebrary
by Brian Kunde

We have no use these days for cards
Since online access started.
The old techniques no one regards,
And no one’s broken-hearted.

In modern times, libraries need
New tech to do their duty:
We’ve databases now, indeed,
Which takes a good computy.

Oh how we love those big machines
With all their lights and switches!
Computer screens dance in our dreams,
Despite their constant glitches.

We’ve gaily thrown our files away;
Our shelf-lists too we’re trashing.
Without regard for that dread day
Our system may go crashing.

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Ebrary

from Bibliotec(hnic)a : Poems, Sep. 24, 2013.
An earlier version appeared in
SUL News Notes, v. 1, no. 46, Nov. 20, 1992,
as “Online on the Line.”

1st web edition posted 5/15/2014.