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The Captive
The Captive
I keep my bookworm in a cage.
To stop it getting in a rage
feed it often through the bars
books by Tacitus, and Mars.
I keep my bookworm in a cage.
To stop it getting in a rage
feed it often through the bars
books by Tacitus, and Mars.
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Though shows us how some folk are wired.
Best stop rage with cups of tea.
and, are you sure it's not a 'she'.
I send him out to find me words
he brings them back arranged in rhyme
(Hope you're not overfeeding him adverbs?)
( He now eats bales of Jackie Kay).
It's really not much fun I've heard
to open books, find not a word,
but just a pile of paper holes
sabotaging reading goals.
creep up when it is dark...
then slam the pages of his lair
and make a worm bookmark.