Today is Poem In Your Pocket day. Click the title for info. So, here's a good poem that I used for a school visit recently.
I need to read.
It’s a little like breathing
or eating
or drinking
my life’s link to thinking.
Without it I am
much less than I am,
less of a person
and more of a yam.
Reading is writing
is learning
is growing
igniting cognition,
that’s what keeps one going
Trucking along on a civilized track
More upward than downward
And possibly forward,
it feels like it’s forward,
most probably forward,
and forward
is generally better than back.
from Moon, have you met my mother?: collected poems of Karla Kuskin
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