I Love the Look of Words

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I Love the Look of Words

• By Maya Angelou
• Read by Mrs. Youngs 4th Grade

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I Love the Look of Words

• I Love the Look of WordsPopcorn leaps, popping
  from the floorof a hot black skilletand into my
  mouth.
• Black words leap,snapping from the whitepage.
  Rushing into my eyes. SlidingInto my brain which
  gobbles themthe way my tongue and teethchomp
  the buttered popcorn.
• When I have stopped reading,ideas from the words
  stay stuckin my mind, like the sweetsmell of
  butter perfuming myfingers long after the
  popcornis finished.
• I love the book and the look of wordsthe weight
  of ideas that popped into my mindI love the
  tracksof new thinking in my mind.
• -Maya Angelou