Burning Books

Throw your books in the fire. What do they say
As the pages crisp in soft, warm embers?
When the paper blackens the words away,
What thoughts will the ashen scraps remember?
Erase the nostalgia of history
And abandon semiotic recourse
In the shrouding exhaust of mystery.
Let them vanish in the singeing heat's source.
Destroy the facts that exceed their meaning.
Allow truth to shribble inside the pit
Underneath illiteracy's screening.
Let the ledger's binding begin to split.
Stoke the blazes of intolerance
That make all information ignorance.

poem by Tim Stensloff
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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