Transcript for the Piece Audio version of National Poetry Month Commentary

April is National Poetry Month -- and yet you won’t find any greeting cards about it at the mall. I can’t be the only person who considers that more than just a little bit ironic. I mean, supposedly poets can translate nature’s wondrous beauty and unspeakable human emotions into words that touch our very souls. Right? So why can’t one of them take a couple of minutes to knock off a verse or two for somebody to slap a pretty picture on so every April I can buy it, sign it and send it to the many long-suffering poets in my life. It would brighten the dreary existences of so many of their peers. And they do call themselves professional poets. I mean, how difficult can it be? [Pause] Have you tried to write a poem lately? Well, I have -- and let me tell you, it’s hard. No wonder so many poets are so cranky. You’d be cranky too if you had to find words that rhyme with Happy National Poetry Month.