Where Hath Lagston Hughes Goneth? (An Interaction By Justin Strock)

Justin Strock had trouble finding a copy of The Panther & The Lash, which was the opposite of my problem. I accidentally bought the book twice but failed to science a copy into his hands. He persevered, though, and wrote an interaction about Not reading the book. Truly, he went above and beyond the expectations for this project.

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Oh, Langston. 
How is it that your pantheon is not sold at The Strand, nor able to be retrieved
(except in eBook format) - blech
at the Central Brooklyn Public Library?
it's ceilings vaulted, it's escalators slow, it's cafe and business
center teeming:
Hassids, West Indians, Hipsterati, the bored, and elderly and 
adolescently-afflicted.
it's stacks sagging, not from the weight of books, but from
their rapid obsolescence...
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What hath become of this once venerable seething city?
Where may we still snap our applause unironically?
Is this Nunu York now?