Midweek Review
Of Books and Bread
By Lynn Ockersz
A learned judge across the Palk Strait,
Had certainly got his basics in place,
When he held for the primacy of Bread,
And received wisdom freshly upheld,
That it is to the eatery and not the library,
That a starving human drags himself,
Thus putting to rest at first blush,
The Bread or Books first debate,
But rush not to conclusions in this instance,
For, while Bread satisfies the physical self,
It’s Books that nourish the heart and mind,
So, let not Books and Bread futilely contend.