Though I don't think she reads much
Baba Yaga travels with a battered
Brass-hinged steamer trunk
Filled with memoirs and romance novels,
Some of which are dedicated to her
(I find this fact disturbing).
I tell her it is eccentric to
Make her cat her librarian
Since the cat can't read. Neither,
She says, could Jorge Luis Borges
During his tenure as blind Director
Of the National Library of Argentina.
Moreover, even when he could see,
Borges didn't catch mice and owed
His appointment almost entirely to
The Great Cat Shortage of 1955.
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