These creatures never need to read <br />To be intimate with literature. <br /> <br />Harmless enough in their way, <br />They make little nervous jumps over sentences. <br /> <br />For them paper mould holds more interest than words. <br />They'd rather argue over a particle of glue <br />Than the sense of a text. <br /> <br />Their interests lie on the soiled surface of the page <br />They punctuate merely by their presence. <br /> <br />In essence booklice are tiny cattle <br />That will graze on the pages of a book <br />Long after anyone else has ceased to care or to look.<br /><br />Paul Lester<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/booklice/
