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Forced Move to a Small Apartment

Robert Laughlin

I had to sell off almost all my books for lack of room.
The ones most recently released and still in copyright were kept.
I should be grateful I can read the others on the Net, now digitized, for free;
I’m not.
I miss the sensory associations that they had,
My books that weren’t swapped for counterparts in code:
The rustle of each turning page,
The musk of paper leaves,
The feel of supple covers lolling in my palms.
I had to move to smaller quarters, don’t you know—a deprivation tank.

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