The Function Of A Great Library Is

There's A Time And Place For The Kindle, And I Own One Now And Have Books On It That I Don't Otherwise Have. But I Don't Find That My Hand Reaches Out For It The Way It Does For A Trade Paperback, Or (in The Middle Of The Night) For The Ipod Touch.

I've Never Been A Fast Reader. I'm Fickle; I Don't Finish Books I Start; I Put A Book Aside For Five, Ten Years And Then Take It Up Again.

The Nice Thing About A Protest Song Is That It Takes The Complaint, The Fussing, The Finger-pointing, And Gives It An Added Component Of Sociable Harmony.

Rarely Do Pens Go Dry In Restaurants.

So What Rhyming Poems Do Is They Take All These Nearby Sound Curves And Remind You That They First Existed That Way In Your Brain. Before They Meant Something Specific, They Had A Shape And A Way Of Being Said. And Now, Yes, Gloom And Broom Are Floating Fifty Miles Away From Each Other In You Mind Because They Refer To Different Notions, But They're Cheek-by-jowl As Far As Your Tongue Is Concerned. And That's What A Poem Does. Poems Match Sounds Up The Way You Matched Them When You Were A Tiny Kid, Using That Detachable Front Phoneme.