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A chapter in the book A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities

The Dewey Decimal System

by CD Richards

Now, I'm not that well-versed, (you might say I am cursed),
In anything bibliothetic;
when locating a book, I don't know where to look,
my attempts are quite plainly pathetic.
First I search by surname, but the hunt is in vain,
I exclaim in a whisper, "Well, phooey!";
then by subject I try, failure leads me to cry,
and I curse that old buzzard named Dewey.

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Today's word: bibliothetic (adj.) pertaining to the arrangement of books in a library.

The Dewey Decimal System is a convoluted cataloguing system for libraries, first released in 1876, and designed to ensure minimum likelihood of finding any volume of interest.

My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

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