Pick up a book
A portal to a new place
Western towns, castles, or space
All it takes is a good look
Pick up a book
Follow an adventure
Or one with knowledge at its center
Perhaps to teach you how to cook?
Pick up a book
Of action and chases
Explosions and races
And daring feats undertook
Pick up a book
Characters with questionable morals
Causing hundreds of quarrels
All because they’re a crook
Pick up a book
Magic dances on fingertips
And dragons burn sinking ships
While a pirate earns his hook
Pick up a book
Let it take you away
To a far away place
Where the world isn’t so shook
Pick up a book
Take a good look
And someday you may find
That you’re reading mine
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
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