The universe (which others call the library). . . <br />-Jorge Luis Borges <br /> <br />Books which are stitched up the center with coarse white thread <br />Books on the beach with sunglass-colored pages <br />Books about food with pictures of weeping grapefruits <br />Books about baking bread with browned corners <br />Books about long-haired Frenchmen with uncut pages <br />Books of erotic engravings with pages that stick <br />Books about inns whose stars have sputtered out <br />Books of illuminations surrounded by darkness <br />Books with blank pages & printed margins <br />Books with fanatical footnotes in no-point type <br />Books with book lice <br />Books with rice-paper pastings <br />Books with book fungus blooming over their pages <br />Books with pages of skin with flesh-colored bindings <br />Books by men in love with the letter O <br />Books which smell of earth whose pages turn<br /><br />Erica Jong<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/books-51/
