I Asked My Son.

I asked my son
“Do you read?”
“No.”
“Shame. If you don’t read, you will be lost
In a huge world of today.
If you don’t read, you will be poor
And be dumb.
You can’t survive!
You never can!”
The next day
I found him gone,
I looked
And found him,
buried in books,
At the library.