The books you sent
lie on the shelf
I don’t read them
Austen and Maugham
books on old films
Nazi biographies
furry with dust
purposefully neglected
lies, all of it
histories of French kings
by church-going luminaries
not to be gifted or donated
sentenced to a life unread
books about
dandies and rich bitches
dogs in human form
Agatha Christie
biographies of propagandists
revered by some but
not me
books not worth the flame
not worth time
lying books to lie decoratively
(like all lies)
as long as I control
truthfront 
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