Reding is phun

If you look at Glenn Beck's library
record, you won't see...much.
Kanye West has admitted to
never reading books,
although he wrote one.
1 in 15 Americans
can't make sense of a newspaper.
Every first world country
teaches at least two
languages to children starting from birth.
And we don't know our own.
Where did we go wrong?
Did television announce itself
as a deity?
Did our busy hands move too fast
for our eyes to see?
Did we trade poetry
for portability?
Or was it when we knew?
When we knew we were smart enough.
When we knew the coldest wars were over.
When we knew how to advertise.
Maybe.
But maybe,
the end of culture should be blamed on us,
the weak.
The death of our language happened
when we were far too bold to listen
and far too scared to speak.