Books Are The Most Thriving Endangered Species of All!

I gotta say,
and I know
I just talked
about this,
but as far
as endangered
species go,
books are doing
pretty okay
for themselves.

The real problem
is that everyone
keeps lamenting
their sad fate,
as if they're
already gone,
and we're a
poorer culture
for not noticing
it yet.

The problem with this
is that those same
people have no idea
what they're missing
in the meantime,
because they're so busy
complaining. They
really don't even know
what they're defending,

like a bird complaining
that there's no room
to fly
while it's soaring
in the sky.

Maybe I'm talking
about books,
and maybe I'm
talking about
environmentalists.

Or maybe I'm
just taking up space
with words.

Ah, well,
that's fun, too.

All I know is, there's a lot
of books out there, and more
and more every day, which is
a strangely curious thing
to happen for something that's
apparently quickly fading away!