“The Universal Turtle VerseI spend the day nibbling rent-freeUnderneath the Giving Tree.Me, Rirty Dat and Snerry JakeShow Runny Babbit how to makeUp verses. Then I lug my hump(Careful not to bump the Glump)Into the woods to trade a wordWith the argle-bargle bird:Nuthatch wisely recommends,Find out where the sidewalk ends.”

“I won't be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.”

“Spotted Park BenchI am a park bench.Ordinary words cannotexpress my thoughts on birds.”

“I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.”

“Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses”

“LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens,UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement”

“A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies.”