On Thursday, celebrate the First National Poem in Your Pocket Day by keeping a favorite poem in your pocket and sharing it with those around you!
Since this is still National Library Week, my suggestion is to put a poem about libraries in your pocket!
So what poem is this librarian going to use? I haven’t decided yet. Perhaps this not so famous poem, by this not so famous poet:
A librarian’s life is the life for me
For there’s nothing at all to do, you see,
But to sit at a desk and read new books,
And admire yourself, and think of your looks.
To questioning souls one can tartly say:
I can’t be bothered with you today,
For I haven’t finished this novel. See?
A librarian’s life is the life for me.
–William Fitch Smyth, “A Librarian’s Life” (1910)
