Got Books Here / by Brian Kunde

Got Books Here
by Brian Kunde

Got books here;
lotsa books:
books by the score,
by the peck or bushel:
books!

Getcher books here!
red hot economics,
sports and business,
torts and phonics,
current events,
ancient histories,
latest mysteries,
Stephen King—
anything.

You want it, we got it!
Books on tape,
on CD-ROM;
music and art—
alá carte!
Books here,
getcher books!

Got magazines too;
newspapers—
ain’t no finer
bird-cage liner—
right here!
Got ’em right here:

getcher books!

Sick ’n’ tired of
the information
superhighway?
Come back to
the info parking lot!
Rent by the term!
No charge—just
bring ’em back on time:
getcher books!

Want science?
We got science!
Reference?
We got reference!
Poly sci? Bali Hai?
Catcher in the Rye?
Values of pi?
Give us a try!
We got ’em:
rock bottom
books.

Yes, books!
They’re what we got:
you really ought
to try ’em—
books!
We got books here!

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Got Books Here (B-0058 [B-28.3])
(Poems from the Stanford Libraries: 7)

from Two by Four: and other poems, 3rd ed., Dec. 2000.
Earlier versions appeared in
SUL News Notes, Vol. 4, no. 41, Oct. 20, 1995,
and College & Research Library News, Vol. 56, no. 11, Dec. 1995.

1st web edition posted 12/29/1995
(updated 1/25/1996).
2nd web edition posted 3/11/1998
(updated 2/15/2000).
3rd web edition posted 6/25/2004.
This page last updated 6/25/2004.