“My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” – Malcolm X
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” – B. F. Skinner
“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Dr. Seuss
Damned!
Damned!
Again and again
You introduce me
To another author
I haven’t read before
Before now
Before this discovery
Something in a title
Or description
Catches my eye
Inflames my curiosity
And the world
Of another author
Is opened to me
Perhaps this one
Will hook me
And more of
Their work
Lines my
Overcrowded shelves
Can’t you hear them groan
DEMANDING
To be read?
Piled so high they
LEAN over edges
Hunger for more
Les livres
Well loved stories
Searching for what else
The author has written
Words, stories, poems
I never could keep
This addiction secret
Hooked so young
A passion often key
In forming new friendships
Yes, that is me
I am damned
Damned to a life
Of books
Merci beaucoup!
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Bisous
Léa
