Lost Works, Part II

......The loss of Alexandria, the burning of Ashburnham House, the Grand Library of Baghdad which the Mongolians tore down, the countless Aztec codices that the conquistadors all burned... just thinking of the knowledge lost sometimes can make my stomach churn. Even Shakespeare claims a ‘lost play,’ this is not bound to antiquity, Scott Joplin’s opera Guest of Honor has been swallowed by history. Even some tales by Hemmingway disappeared in a lost suitcase, happens still in our modern age, a quite avoidable disgrace. Only God knows just what we’ve lost, and isn’t keen on sharing it, what we still have is half the tale, we’ve lost so much wisdom and wit. It can fill a curious mind with a sense of tired despair, paper rots and the stone erodes until it all just goes nowhere… Perhaps, these days, the bits and bites will keep all of our knowledge better, after all, don’t the people say the Internet is forever? Isn’t it? ….on an unrelated note, I’m gonna go post this on every poetry forum I can find…