A Demco No. 675 Card Catalog Filing Flag

Who knew
You used to revisit love poems
Enough to mark pages
With paper clips
A Demco No. 675 Card Catalog Filing Flag
Bent around the edges
Maybe you still do

In a secret library somewhere
You were more than an office worker
More than a mother
Someone made you wonder
And mark page 132:

"Do you like the color blue
do I worry you when I frown
Where were you
when I was growing up
and needed somebody"

And thanks to you
I never had to ask

I leave office supplies
As marginalia
Or I will, if I ever find
A love poem better
Than a Demco No. 675 card catalog Filing Flag