Learn from toddlers - chew - for flavor -
Books - for comfort. When your gums
Open, splitting, try to savor
Sentences like final crumbs
When you're starving. When you're craving
All the safety of the crib,
And your stomach walls are caving
In and up against your ribs,
When your tears well up and swelling
Eyelids - saturated - burst,
When your pain is too compelling,
Sink your teeth deep into verse.
When you're lonely, when your lover
Fails to satisfy your need,
Don't go searching for another, -
Learn from toddlers how to read.