08-28-2015, 05:35 AM
I vote for keeping "reading" in the title. There is nothing else in the poem to clue the reader in to the idea that this is not a series of random observations of the world through bifocals, but is instead a metaphor about how the words behave when seen through the bifocals. Without that clue in the title, the reader will envision literal children and cockroaches, not swimmy words.
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara