Why aren’t people reading all the time?
There’s so much good stuff being written,
more every day.
I read what I can
but I’m a slow reader
and I’ll never catch up.
But it’s wonderful,
the stuff I’m reading.
Some of it even better
than old time classics.
If people could read
without struggling over words,
they’d know.
Everything would be better.
That’s why teachers,
and I was one forever,
if we read ourselves
and have the courage
to teach and care about
our students
and help them read
and then let them read
why, we could save the world
as I keep saying.