by Tina Williams
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I’m not hearing so well lately
and as my audiologist enters
values on her computer
my eye catches her cup
which has a goat on it
and I remember the time
I was at the coffee shop
named for a ruminant
and there was a woman
sitting outside
with a latte in one hand,
paperback in the other,
and a goat jumped
on her table and with
one jerk snatched
the book and began
to eat it, whole
chapters at a time,
looking her in the eye
all the while while
everyone watched.
What could any of us
have done at such
a moment in history?
It was an average day.
All the words were there.
Then they were not.
Tina Williams lives in Texas where the ACLU tirelessly monitors and battles the banning of books from libraries.
