"Hello Book!"

Hello Book!

by N. M. Bodecker

Hello Book!

What are you up to?

Keeping yourself to yourself,

shut in between your covers,

a prisoner high on a shelf.

Come in book!

What is your story?

Haven't you ever been read?

Did you think

I would just pass by you

and pick me a comic instead?

No way book!

I'm your reader

I open you up,

set you free.

Listen, I know a secret!

Will you share your secrets with me?