–Nothing open…
not since all the bookstores died…
that night the double doors were bursting book pages…
more words ran into the gutters than ever before…
you couldn’t go swimming in the ocean for weeks…
those surfers who didn’t listen, and ventured in anyway got knocked out by words like
‘belligerence’ and ‘ignominious’…
seafood was also banned for months, it was worse than the gulf oil spill; several people choked to death on words like ‘recondite’ during a meal of tilapia or smoked salmon…
the only upside was that people living near the water somehow found themselves temporarily fluent in at least five languages; the effects wore off with Amazon’s increase in sales…
I miss bookstores.