Books Are Bombs
by Linda Eisenstein
- Books are bombs. Go to the library
- and there they are, all lined up
- like Molotov cocktails: more revolution
- than you can shake a swizzle stick at.
- Every librarian's a closet anarchist.
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- Face it. It's why they fear us. If you
- can spin a dream and wake somebody up
- at the same time? That's better than
- a gun, that's magic. Words hang in the air
- long after bones are dust and metal rust.
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- Write the truth. It's like baking
- a cake with a file in it. You do it
- so somebody else inside her prison
- of a family, school, culture -- can make
- a break for it, one word at a time.
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- © 1997 Linda Eisenstein
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- First published in Fireweed, Winter 2000
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