Reading - Second version of book and illustration here: https://www.facebook.com/430690183670305/photos/a.430924423646881.98070.430690183670305/1442982015774445/?type=3&theater

The mind is dull, the world is bleak?
Go search a shelf, let's have a peek!
What can save you from the grey within?
A lovely book or one of his kin.

Feel the paper, smell the ink,
Into a chair, a couch, a pillow you sink.
And then let the story take you away,
Forget about dull and bleak and grey.

For just a little while forget
How hard the hamster's wheel you tread.
Or that the news are full of shite,
and that life's a frickin' sisyphosfight.

So take your favorite book-hero by the hand,
Bring him over to realityland.
Have him help you make a stand
Against this society's harsh quicksand.
Which pulls in the poor, the small, the weak.

So don't forget too long about the bleak,
But smile, do good, be kind, be you,
Read and live and think and do!