As long as I can read
declares a library user
quite joyously it seems

As long as I can read
as she returns tons of books
and takes out tons more

As long as I can read
no television for her
(can you feel that)

As long as I can read
encyclopaedic knowledge
she says her daughter
says of her

(774 million adults are not
able to read and write
and here we have to
Campaign for School Libraries
and Quality Public Education)

As long as I can read
alas is not yet
a mantra we all sing
joyously or otherwise

Fascinated am I, by a mother proclaiming herself, out Lansdowne library way, Saturday morning 10 July 2010, before the end of the F-thing, past its sell-by-date.