I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
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J. Patrick Lewis
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Please Bury Me in the Library
The Last Resort
World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of
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LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens,UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement
A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies.
Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses
I won't be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.
The rat isthe mous-tacheinthetrache.the wrong-doerinthesoer.