Today The Year Is 1540 Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

Alsatian scholar Beatus Rhenanus dies
and his personal collection of 670 books
is bequeathed to the Humanist Library
of Sélestat.

This news you cannot use because I have
a collection of 999 books. And this is
the second time around since moving
from place to place.

Previously, in Northern California, I sold
every single one. The reason for the present
breaking news is that since moving here,
the literati crotch of California, considering

the head to be San Francisco and San Jose
the armpit is when I tried to sell them
to used book stores their answer was
nobody here reads such books.

No wonder judging by the TV program
The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Wow, so what am I to do with my book
collection before I die.

Some of my books like Art under Stalin or
Iconography of Power & Soviet Posters or
Fear and the Muse Kept Watch or
The Russian Masters from Akhmatova and

Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein
Under Stalin and Lenin may be trashed
but I hope Trump and Putin will save me
from doing that.

At this pace when our president takes on
a Russian nationality we'll have a Slav
President.