Do you feel a poll coming on?

This is your column, after all.

What I mean is that, well …

My plan here has been to chat about various things at least once a week — notes and quotes, you know?

But sometimes readers just bury us with questions or comments on a single topic.

So that’s where we have to go.

And at the moment, I have so many emails stacked up concerning the various polls we’ve done that my eyes are watering.

The latest, you might recall, was about your favorite books.

I’ve been amazed at how many people keep sending me titles, long after the “official” poll concluded.

But better than that, quite a few of you took that discussion of books to heart, and have said that thinking about enjoyable books has spurred you back to reading.

And that, my friends, just thrills me.

Plus, I have to admit that doing the poll actually made me think more about reading myself — so I’m back to finding various authors and titles that make me laugh (like Bill Bryson), or think about my life, or just lay out a mystery that needs solving.

The bottom line, I guess, is that asking you about memorable books has given me a kick up the backside, too.

THE SAME thing happened with our previous polls.

I’ve gotten caught up in memories, and apparently so have you.

One of my favorite stories involved Mike Patrick, our esteemed editor, and our very first poll — about the best songs of the last 60 years.

He apparently went to the gym one day and reported that everyone within earshot wanted to argue about what should — or would — top our final list.

Mike was amazed that the music poll seemed to have caused such an uproar — but I could have told him that folks become pretty doggone invested when you ask THEIR opinion about anything at all.

I’d already learned that during my previous gig, as executive editor for the Manhattan Mercury in eastern Kansas.

In that case, a whole ruckus broke out in town when our publisher, Ned Seaton, wrote an opinion piece simply to declare that Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” was the greatest rock song of all time.

Within days, the newspaper was besieged by readers taking exception to Ned’s opinion, and eventually we had to print a list of the top 10 selections.

IT’S REALLY very simple: Everyone likes to toss in his/her opinion about the best (or worst) of anything at all.

So, sure, we’re going to keep asking you.

I’ve got the next poll in mind, in fact, and I promise it’s going to be a lot of fun. I’ll also promise you can’t guess the topic.

When you read it, though, you’re going to smile — and join the party.

Maybe we’ll toss out the invitation on Saturday.

Who knows?

Meanwhile, I think I’ll cue up “Thunder Road” and prepare for my discussion with Ned. Surely, “Born to Run” is The Boss’s most iconic offering.

Hey, it was the title of his autobiography.

See what I mean?

Throwing out opinions is fun stuff.

Watch this space.

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Steve Cameron is a columnist for The Press. A Brand New Day appears Wednesday through Saturday each week.

Email: scameron@cdapress.com.

Twitter: @BrandNewDayCDA