TERMINAL POEMS

The Reading List

13 / 40 · III. The Lesson

He asks the chatbot
for five sources
on epistemic injustice.

It gives him six.
Two exist.

He cites
all of them
because the deadline
is tomorrow
and the library
closes at five.

In the margins
of his essay,
a tutor writes:
These references
do not appear
to be real.

He thinks:
neither does
the reading list
we gave him –

three of those books
are out of print.
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