The library burns on page sixty, as it burns in all the newspapers of the world

Titles plundered from library:

Yale Younger Poets Anthology
Meditations on the Insatiable Soul - Robert Bly
Two-Headed Poems - Margaret Atwood
One Stick Song - Sherman Alexie
Breath - Philip Levine
The Colossus - Sylvia Plath
April Galleons - John Ashbery
The Far Field - Theodore Roethke
Sonnets to Orpheus - Reiner Maria Rilke

Sprouting in pre-garden dirtpots:

Beets
Sunflowers
Garlic starters (gift from a friend)
Basil
Cilantro
Spinach
Swiss Chard
Lettuce

Sundry:

"During (Pres. James Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau)'s trial, one horrifying but effective stunt by the prosecution involved passing around Garfield's spine, which had been removed during the autopsy. Seeing the president's vertebrae being pawed by the jury made the ladies present cry." - Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation