Bookworm
A #poem in three parts

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i.

A bronze little boy
who grew up with old books.
Turn the page

He read Twain with joy
and Jack London cooked.
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But soon he got sick:
his mom kept him close
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yet gave him her love
in tiny spoon doses.
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Taught himself to write,
even in cursive
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but her line of sight
was ever elusive.
Turn the page

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