Stickytape

“Stickytape” has always been my word for it, not
“Adhesive Tape”, as enunciated by a better class of user,
never “Durex”, tainted by the protective proclivities
of the English, while “Scotch” mocks highlander thrift
necessitated by English butchery and odious betrayal
by lairds turned overly fond of sheep, “Sellotape”
sounds pallid, and some say “Transparent Tape” but
only pedants insist on “Transparent Adhesive Tape”
which nonetheless lists the qualities making the stuff
ideal for repair of books, a cosmetic procedure where
drifting surfaces are dragged back together and perhaps
more pleasingly aligned, although, as with humans,
the contents still rot and crumble inevitably to dust,
neither book nor being to be judged by its cover.