September 6: Read a Book Day

Classic Readings

It's one of life's sublime delights, to spend
the day immersed in classics: Odyssey
or War and Peace, the human tragedy
of Crime and Punishment; to comprehend

the mind of Poe, the gloom in Dickens' voice;
Camus and Kafka by comparison;
the dulcet rhymes of Frost and Dickinson;
the call to justice -- Angelou, Du Bois;

The Grapes of Wrath and Nineteen-Eighty-Four;
the works of Faulkner, Twain, and Hemingway;
Shakespearean and Swiftlike metaphor;
the sisters Brontë, Crusoe's castaway;
Candide, Quixote, and a hundred more:
behold the bibliophilist's buffet!