Book Ends

Bookends call a gaggle of bedraggled books to attention
The big fat tomes, short stories, paperback
are all pulled into line, toe to toe buttressed on parade.
Books need bookends to get propped up and be seen
to get up out of bed, get dressed and be presentable.
Likewise, bookends need books to lean against
or else they topple over in a huddle.
They pine, sigh, moan and whimper 
with no books to embrace and cup one-handed.
Like spoilt kids they chuck temper tantrum fits, 
get hissy, fall over, lay on the shelf and sulk.
So remember to keep your books and bookends 
in happy symbiosis, with good reads kept to attention,
held in check by bossy bookend majors.
But, beware, those cheeky bookends tittle tattle at night,
and speed reading between the lines. 
They skip the plot, and jump straight to
'In the Beginning' and 'The End'