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I Read Banned Books

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I read banned books
           Books that stir up trouble and thoughts
           Books that force people to look at what they don't want to see

I read banned books
           Books which cause parents to shut their hands over the eyes of their children
           Books which the government don't want the masses to read

I read banned books
I read Rowling, Lee, Hurston, Morrison, Frank, and Myers
I read Steinbeck, Huxley, Paterson, Chaucer, and Orwell
I read Hinton, Fitzgerald, Bradbury, Conrad, and Carroll

I read banned books and hunger for more
Another piece inspired by a book. Though not the writing style, just the subject matter.

I have Fahrenheit 451 sitting in my car's cassette player yes, cassette player, my car's old...

So I'm listening to this audio book when I realized two things:
1) This is talking about a world that we in America are heading towards pretty shortly...
2) This book is about book burning and books being banned
This lead to another thought: I, throughout much of my schooling and pure curiosity, have read many books that have been banned at one point or another. And so I looked up a list of the books that have been banned and found that the books I have fallen in love with the most have all been banned.

So I wrote this up as an ode to the books that make people think.

Can anyone guess which books I hinted too with the list of authors?
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SequenceNemesis's avatar
Very daring, I liked the poem.