Appears in the anthology: Diverse Voices: The Poetry of Human Rights and the Pursuit of Peace

Ultrarepidarian: someone who gives an opinion on something they know nothing about

Epeology: the worship of words

Bibliophagist: one who literally devours books

Bibliosmia: A smeller or smelling of books

Tsundoku: purchasing books that pile up, unread

Philitre: aphrodisiac

Philippic: declamation

Librocubicularist: loves reading in bed

Susquapedalianist: user of unusally large words

Logophile: lover of words

Lectophile: lover of reading

Bibliophile: lover of books

Ballycumber: one of six half-read books lying somewhere

Omnilegent: reader of everything

Psithurism: the sound of the wind blowing through trees

Printrovert

I guess I am prejudiced by its age
I look forward to the turning of each page
I do judge a book by its cover
It completes me more than any lover
The journeys I am on
As I sail or I trail someone
I can't sleep because I need
To see where this story takes me
Am I a lectiophile or bibliophagist
Only if someone makes me eat my words
Am I a bibliophile, a bookworm or librocubicularist?
A logophile or a omnilegent? 
I am definitely a bullycumber
As a printrovert and a sesquipedalianist
Again I'm no bibliophagist but a French ink drinker
I am certainly not in the company of Timon of Athens
I'm no Thoreau either
I am no hand biter or misanthrope or misleader
Nope that's not me when I read
I have this bad habit of tsundoku 
Buying and leaving unread books in a pile
But in this book I read, she gives me a singer's smile
Am I a bibliosmia, maybe at times
But only those tomes that have stood the test of time
So please don't misunderstand
I am no ultrarepidarian
Or do I engage in epeology
Again I don't worship the written word as an idol
But it will always have its place in history
So as a printrovert I need the philitre of a book
Not someone's dirty look
And I mean no harm and throw no philippic tirade
I just want to be left alone as I turn from page to page
So as I close I hear the psithurism
Which makes the italics look 
Like the wind is blowing through my book

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