Poets

I went to a University with an excellent graduate writing program, one of the best in the country.  I dated one of the Fiction writers, and became friends with two of his Poet friends.  After a while it became pretty clear that they viewed love and romance from...about the lens of a very eloquent and gifted 14-year old girl.  They talked about love all the time.  They were constantly "falling in love."  And by constantly, I mean 4 or 5 times a day.  I told them that falling in love with four female tourists they saw walking by in DC is something only a 14-year old would say, that it was more likely that they just saw four women they wanted to screw really badly.

That upset their poetic temperaments.

I used to think that they were just funny, and slightly ridiculous.  But I do remember running across one of them, who was pained and frantic about the women he was "falling in love with."  Now it seems more like they were love or romance addicts.

The Ex could quote poetry, and he had a vast poetry collection.  I've always like poetry, but I don't run out and buy it all the time.  I was suspicious of poets before him, and even more so now...