Sarah Kay

using poetry to process falling in love and, spoiler alert, heartbreak, and also reaching and searching in the way that I did as a young person.

And then the third section of the book is a reflection of where I am now, which is reaching for poetry to help me process aging and mortality and the sort of newer moments

moments in which I reach for poetry.

And that became the project of the book.

And once I found that sort of spine, then I was able to see which of all these poems help show that chronology like little ticks on a timeline.

Oh, you know what's so funny?

I wouldn't.

I wouldn't say a single thing to her because the only reason it worked is that I knew absolutely nothing about what was going to happen.

I was so naive and I was so...

genuinely present and just happy to be there.

And you can see it when you watch the video.

Yeah.

Who's just like, wow, here I am.

What a day.

And I think if I tried to say anything, it would, it would betray too much to that kid and it would trample it.

And so I wouldn't, I wouldn't say a thing.

I would just, I would just watch.

Well, poetry is this ancient, ancient art form.

It's as old as we are.

And there are so many poets who were maybe even not allowed the title of poet or were not concerned with the title of poet.