Forever shut and made of wood,

That’s what I am. My head’s no good

now that it by a stone was struck.

Old spectacles bewitched with muck

repose within me by the score.

I’m just a cupboard, nothing more.

-Dancelot Wordwright

Featured in the novel The City of Dreaming Books, written by his authorial godson Optimus Yarnspinner. Translated from Zamonian and Illustrated by Walter Moers