I also want to read just one little thing.
This is something I wrote, and I just came across.
And I couldn't believe I wrote it.
I thought, oh, man, that's great.
[LAUGHTER]
But I wanted to say it.
This is just about poems.
Poems say what words cannot.
They reach for what words mean to say,
what they wish they had said, what they need to say.
Words themselves are sometimes too shy, too inadequate,
too overused.
Poems stop us for a moment, and say, pay attention.
They charge us with remembering that words used to--
and still can-- gift us with meaning, and with feeling.
When we do pay attention, we are better for it.
Paying attention is now, and has always been,
the great magic of the world.
Thank you.