The Best Poem You'll Never Read
If you ever come to Redding, this is a safe bet for great food and atmosphere. My love - sitting across from me in a cozy booth at Market Street Steakhouse last night for our fifteenth anniversary - hands me a small, folded piece of paper and says, "I'm not a poet." She is a poet She's a poet in everything she does As she feels life so deeply around her, as she takes it all in and then returns it to the universe, through her voice, through her smile, through her amazing and fearless capacity for love, she creates poetry She is a poet She wrote four life-long poems Brilliant, unique beats, brave kind loving and strong of mind these four write themselves more and more, which makes her sad She is a poet She writes lines across my heart every day hieroglyphic calligraphic the deepest drum the sweetest string a symphony of words and tune a screaming whispered rune So, anyway, there we were, sitting in this romantic daze, drinking dirty martinis and eating some fabulous foo...