Bookworms
Bookworms are the cleverest
of all the worms I know
While others meet their fate
on a fisherman’s hook as bait
Or churn out silk, guzzle soil
or simply burn and glow
They loll about in libraries
eating words to make them grow
In long-forgotten classics
Latin tracts and dusty tomes
Snug as bugs they hunker down
and set up family homes
Vegetarians mainly,
they are careful what they eat
Avoiding names of animals
or references to meat
They slip between the pages
curl up, and eat ‘The End’.
