Lost in the Stacks

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Meet me at the Archer Library
Ivory arches reach to granite sky
A campus rejecting artificial water
The snow drifts fill fountains; desolate and dry

Here we are lost in the stacks again - two errant books
Turned around; lost in the stacks again
Sometimes it feels good to be marked with a code and scanned and filed away
Here we are lost in the stacks again

Like the architect who dreamed in white boxes
We fix on fields and miss the sky
You can’t take the prairie out of the prairies
You can’t build a future where modernism came to die

Here we are lost in the stacks again - two errant books
Turned around; lost in the stacks again
Sometimes it feels good to be marked with a code and scanned and filed away
Here we are lost in the stacks again

We map and we plan and we build systems
We print and we bind our best wisdom
We walk through the stacks with eyes open
And we get lost anyway

Here we are lost in the stacks again - two errant books
Turned around; lost in the stacks again
Sometimes it feels good to be marked with a code and scanned and filed away
Here we are lost in the stacks again

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from a remainder mark, released November 4, 2022

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