Well, reader, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no perfect novel. It’s had tears in it, And rips, And pages torn up, And places with no words Gone. But all the time, I’se been reading on And reachin’ the ends, And turnin’ pages, And sometimes goin’ in the next page Where there ain’t been no words. So reader, don’t you turn back. Don’t you set down on the last chapter ‘Cause you finds it’s kinder hard. Don’t you set the book down now — For I’se still reading, honey, I’se still turning pages, And life for me ain’t been no perfect novel
Based on Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
