I also gave the character a nerdy persona. I actually think I've read this poem before, maybe a few years back. I took the poem to be his progression through literature, and took the final stanza to mean that he had become disillusioned by books. The lines about the yellow man who runs the store appeared to be a commentary on how all stories are repeated. It's almost as if he has run out of original books to read. Personally, I thought the line "books are a load of crap" was far too strong, but it was most likely meant to grab the reader's attention. It's difficult to read "books are a load of crap" without automatically launching into some sort of thought process that makes you ponder over the books you have read and wonder if they were actually literature or just, well....crap.
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