READ AVENUE by Russ McKay
Posted on October 23, 2012
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All the boys and all the girls
The ones with straight hair
And the ones with curls
Well all of the kids on Read Avenue
All had something that they loved to do
If there was even one book around
Or when on those rare times when books would abound
Nearly all of the kids on Read Avenue could be found
With noses buried in books and not looking around
The library over on Madison Street
Had rows of books lined up real neat
But all of the Read kids had already read ’em
And there were no new books so they couldn’t get ’em
When you read a book two or three times
Especially if it’s a book chuck full of rhymes
Well there’s no surprises… no none at all
. It almost makes one want to go to the mall
But then one day an amazing thing
I believe it was on the last day of spring
A truck pulled up to the Goodwill Store
Filled with books from door to door
The clerk at the Goodwill sent the book truck away
“We can’t take all those books!” and she shouted “Nay!”
But there was a resident of Read Avenue there
And he talked with the driver with the flaming red hair
Merely ten minutes later the truck full of books
Unloaded it’s cargo under smile happy looks
And that summer on Read Avenue there’s no doubt
Reading too many books made kid’s eyeballs fall out!