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“A great book is a homing device
For navigating paradise.
A good book somehow makes you care
About the comfort of a chair.
A bad book owes to many trees
A forest of apologies.”
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For navigating paradise.
A good book somehow makes you care
About the comfort of a chair.
A bad book owes to many trees
A forest of apologies.”
―
“I won't be sad too often,
If they bury me in the library
With bookworms in my coffin.”
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If they bury me in the library
With bookworms in my coffin.”
―
“The Ladybug wears no disguises.
She is just what she advertises.
A speckled spectacle of spring,
A fashion statement on the wing....
A miniature orange kite.
A tiny dot-to-dot delight.”
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She is just what she advertises.
A speckled spectacle of spring,
A fashion statement on the wing....
A miniature orange kite.
A tiny dot-to-dot delight.”
―
“I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.”
― The Last Resort
― The Last Resort
“The rat is
the mous-
tache
in
the
trache.
the wrong-
doer
in
the
soer.”
― World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of
the mous-
tache
in
the
trache.
the wrong-
doer
in
the
soer.”
― World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of
“The Book Booth
There's not a big selection,
It's not locked for protection,
But at the intersection
Of Booth and Telephone,
Two customers politely
Can snuggle in it (tightly)
And go once over (lightly)
The books they'd like to own.
"Readcycle" means you leave one -
A book you love. Retrieve one...
Who knows? You might receive one
You haven't read before.
Hats off to the committee
For such an itty-bitty
Library in the city,
Which proves that less is more.”
― If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
There's not a big selection,
It's not locked for protection,
But at the intersection
Of Booth and Telephone,
Two customers politely
Can snuggle in it (tightly)
And go once over (lightly)
The books they'd like to own.
"Readcycle" means you leave one -
A book you love. Retrieve one...
Who knows? You might receive one
You haven't read before.
Hats off to the committee
For such an itty-bitty
Library in the city,
Which proves that less is more.”
― If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
“The Universal Turtle Verse
I spend the day nibbling rent-free
Underneath the Giving Tree.
Me, Rirty Dat and Snerry Jake
Show Runny Babbit how to make
Up verses. Then I lug my hump
(Careful not to bump the Glump)
Into the woods to trade a word
With the argle-bargle bird:
Nuthatch wisely recommends,
Find out where the sidewalk ends.”
― If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
I spend the day nibbling rent-free
Underneath the Giving Tree.
Me, Rirty Dat and Snerry Jake
Show Runny Babbit how to make
Up verses. Then I lug my hump
(Careful not to bump the Glump)
Into the woods to trade a word
With the argle-bargle bird:
Nuthatch wisely recommends,
Find out where the sidewalk ends.”
― If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
“Spotted Park Bench
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds.”
― If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds.”
― If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
“A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.”
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