Caroline Kennedy

the other night
I saw Caroline Kennedy
reading poems with
Stephen Colbert on his show

god awful writing about
americans
the good in americans-
sunflowers
God
the presence of
sun or no sun-
men
woman
and the general
"goodness" of
life
and the sun
and the sunflowers

which is a lot say
considering she is a
published author/writer/poet
and I am
not.

but there is
one thing she said
that spoke of truth;
(like yellow sunflowers)

and that is to
say that poetry
is beautiful and
that woman
have a special
relationship
with poetry
(more so than men)
but when men
write poetry it's
usually about a
woman
and that,
according to her:
is beautiful.

so here is a poem
about a
beautiful
woman who;
surprisingly,
responded to my
e-mail
and my poem