Book Borrower

 I am a mild man, you'll agree,
 But red my rage is,
When folks who borrow books from me
 Turn down their pages.


Or when a chap a book I lend,
 And find he's loaned it
Without permission to a friend -
 As if he owned it.


But worst of all I hate those crooks
 (May hell-fires burn them!)
Who beg the loan of cherished books
 And don't return them.


My books are tendrils of myself
 No shears can sever .
 .
 .

May he who rapes one from its shelf
 Be damned forever.

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