"If a book were you" [villanelle]

        If a book were you
        would you be hand-bound
        with staple & glue?

were your covers blue?
were your ink stone-ground
if a book were you?

                would you fiction do?
                could your verbs be nouned
                through staple & glue?

were your coeur in cru?
would your core astound
if a book were you?

                would your thoughts ring true?
                could your cap be gowned
                using staple & glue?

        could one quaff the brew
        in the goblet found
        of a book like you?
        with staple & glue?