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Prompt: Living in the Library

Between stacks and tomes,

Under sheets of papyrus, parchment,

Over the slate, wax tablets, scrawls,

Scrolls, harakeke, obscure dyes,

Journals, drawings, ceramics, quipu,

Carvings, tapestries, whitu, pūeru:

There, we keep the pattern on bus seats,

Every film collected, so much newspaper,

Instructions for a hundred kinds of flan,

A thousand dead languages,

Every tool you could need,

And a manual for your toaster.