Serial Receiver / by Brian Kunde

Serial Receiver
by Brian Kunde

The check-in file is my home:
To keep it neat I strive,
And tally journals as they come,
In proof that they arrive.

My standing orders are to check
Our standing orders in.
An issue missed our run will wreck,
So losing one’s a sin.

A group of drawers I’ve been assigned
Of check-in records full
I must maintain till I go blind —
Or bonkers, it’s so dull.

To mark up every check-in card
It seems, must be my fate
Until my mind dissolves to lard.
When do we automate?

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Serial Receiver

from Bibliotec(hnic)a : Poems, Sep. 24, 2013.
An earlier version appeared in
SUL News Notes, v. 1, no. 43, Oct. 30, 1992,
as “Serious Wrestles in Serial Records.”

1st web edition posted 5/15/2014.