For God's Sake, Read! Poem by Long Tooth

If you attend one word I say, then read, dear child, please 'READ, '
Life's not like golf you score yourself though Donald feels the need!
Golf's time you waste, scant aid to health (so you're a fool indeed) ,
Your feces is your life's extent, a 'dinosauric' creed!

The "Donald" lusts to be earth's King and can't let others in,
While whole earth knows that Donald's odd, and daily bathes in sin,
He bows each morning to one God, "If you lose then I win! "
And tearing's down what builds him up, to say he cares, just spin.

But widely reading exercises muscles of the soul,
And helps you to feel less alone, that's quite a worthy goal,
A book's not looking for your praise, or spotted like a foal,
For camouflage is not required, nor book's home just a hole!

A book's more like the air we breathe, its wonders all can share,
And lives or dies by truth therein, not quailed by bully's dare,
"Fake News" cannot survive its scorn, won't grab you by 'short hair! '
A book provides like flowing spring; it's there is truly there!

A book's a servant, can't demand, imagination's time,
Can launch new thought, but never help a poet find his rhyme.
A book can be a worthy friend, its treasures quite sublime,
Invest your life; read any book; it's always worth your dime!


Long Tooth
May 19,2018