[nfbwatlk] Fwd: [Wcb-l] Once upon a midnight dreary

[Alco Canfield]

ALCO

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> From: "Becky Frankeberger" <b.butterfly at comcast.net>
> Date: November 6, 2010 9:31:47 AM PDT
> To: <Wcb-l at wcbinfo.org>
> Subject: [Wcb-l] Once upon a midnight dreary
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> Once upon a midnight dreary, while I listened, weak and weary,
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> To many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
> 
> While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly I heard a tapping,
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> As of something gently snapping¬snapping from my player’s core.
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> “Tis the tape”, I sadly muttered, as a quiet curse I swore,
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> “Just the tape¬and nothing more.”
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> 
> 
> Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,
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> As I in a fit of temper threw that tape upon the floor,
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> So many times my player failed me, with frustration it had ailed me,
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> Many new ones they had mailed me, saying “this one’s good for sure”,
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> But each time I’d press that button, it seemed that it was all for nothing,
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> “Would I ever find that something lets me listen?”, I implored,
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> “To my books forevermore?”
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> 
> 
> Eagerly I wished for morrow¬for perhaps, surcease of sorrow
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> Would come with the next tape I would borrow¬Without hiss or pop or roar,
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> Without stop, or twist, or tangle, maybe it would play me more,
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> Dare I hope that I could someday hear a book straight through once more?
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> One day sit, relax, and listen, find my reading joy restored
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> By a book forevermore?
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> 
> 
> I woke that morning, after dreaming, in my room the sunlight streaming
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> Tried again to play that tape I’d thrown upon the floor.
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> Then I heard a quiet tapping, as of someone gently rapping,
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> ‘Twas the postal carrier tapping, tapping on my dwelling’s door
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> “Friend”, he said, with smile of greeting, “this is such a merry meeting,
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> For I bring the gift of reading¬reading that is now restored
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> By digital books forevermore!”
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> 
> 
> I took the package that he gave me¬could this package truly save me
> 
> From the anguished cries I made when my books would play nevermore?
> I opened up the package, beaming; inside a black machine was gleaming,
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> And a small white cartridge, seeming much too small one book to hold,
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> But I put that cartridge in it, and within a single minute,
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> I knew that this machine would win it¬win my heart forevermore.
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> And cassette tapes? Nevermore!
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> 
> 
> Wendy Eisenberg, Librarian
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