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First I sound crazy.....then I'm right.

When is the last time you pick up a book?

When is the last time you pick up a book?
Like an actual book?
In your open hands?
Do you miss turnin the page?
A print out chapter one?
The smell? The words? The author?

It’s been awhile..

I think the books miss our hands
Our eyes, our glasses our minds our souls
They missed people…
They miss our readin, our learnin,
Our touched emotions..

When is the last time you went to the library?
A place where your imagination was invited..
How you used to borrow books with a library card..
I remember

I used to go to the poetry section
And gettin all the inspiration from the greatest poets….

What about a bookstore?
Buyin too many journals and sketchbooks..

So my friend, my dear friend
When is the last time you pick up a book?
Since technology took over, it pull people away from paper
It’s on screen and you still read…

Though old school ways still lingers,
They don’t erase
Cos some hands still hold the book
Still feel the pages…

Sometimes devices need a break
From our fingers sometimes…

It’s alright to touch a real book..
See how smooth the pages are…
It’s really somethin…

You know books miss our humanity…
They need love, too
So is the pencil, pens, Even a writin feather…

When is the last time, the last time you read a book?
Not kindle not online books nor apps..
A real life book that you read in bed at night
Or on the couch durin your leisure?

When is the last time?

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