"Learn from toddlers..."

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.