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Not by me but by Kathryn Medland, Mike Crow, and Mark Harrison back in 1996

I wake up at 6:30 AM for only one reason and that's because Garrison Keillor is on then as the mellifluous reader-of-poetry on the daily Writer's Almanac. I rarely feel compelled to follow-up, but this poem has been in my Palm's to-do list since it was aired. I hope you enjoy it. Be sure to listen to it read by Garrison Keillor.

I guess I was a surrealist poet

8:24) chris abraham 07-DEC-97 1:43

©1993 Chris Abraham

Love it. I don't remember if I lived it.

I need to remember this one better.

©1994 Chris Abraham

If you've ever taken an early American literature course in college, this is indeed a class favorite. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" is a poem written by English Cavalier poet Robert Herrick in the 17th century. First published in 1648 as number 208 in a volume of verse entitled Hesperides, it is perhaps one of the most famous poems to extol the notion of carpe diem, a philosophy that recognizes the brevity of life and, therefore, the need to live for and in the moment.

Wow, heavy