Oyinkan Braithwaite

But they were referring, but the Mrs. Rochester book was referring to Jane as Mrs. Rochester.

So it's after all of everything has happened in Jane Eyre.

Wow.

Well, I selected, I think it's called Love Poems.

It's an anthology of poems collected by Anne Harvey.

And it's a little small book like this.

And it just has, I mean, it's very corny.

It's just a book of love poems.

So lost love, new love.

But there's some poems in there that, you know, they've...

they had me looking at poetry in a different way, because I've had it for, I've had this also since I was a child, and, well, no, maybe not a child, maybe a teenager, and I think it was a gift, and I would just come to it time and time again.

But what you said about being drawn to poetry during major occasions, I remember, because my grandpa

he used to write poetry and he never really understood my poetry because he said it didn't rhyme.

So he wasn't really sure if it even was poetry.

So when it was somebody's birthday, like one of his children's birthdays, he would compose

this poem, this birthday poem for them, and then he would put it to music and, you know, they got really excited about it.

And my mom and my grandpa, they were very close.

So after he passed, one day I was looking at a book he had done, because in Nigeria, when you get to a milestone age, so say 50 or 60 or so, you get like a book with people writing

things about you and you know that's where he would put the poems so I think I looked at a poem and then I was like hang on a minute and then I worked and I looked at another poem and then another and I realized that it was the exact same poem he was just changing names like he would just change

the names and the dates and occasional detail here and there.