WHEN IS A WRITER BORN?

 

I got in trouble in elementary school - 

For reading my Pop's small dictionary

Hidden inside my history book during the lesson.

 

History was boring the way it was taught then:

Memorize the dates.
I remember -
In 1492,

Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

And the Battle of Hastings - 1066 - I think.

 

But words, oh, words -

The universe is in the words.