hello welcome to poetry changes lives this book of poetry history and a thought for the day I woke up one day and I was in rehab I couldn’t remember getting there my wife had um very wisely um driven me there and dumped me there I could remember that I was very angry and resentful about it somebody said to me well if you won’t talk to us Christopher uh try writing a poem about that so I thought oh all right I’ll show you today I’m 10 years sober he announced glowing with pride isn’t that marvelous recovery days May 19th honesty if you can tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything that’s a quote by Mark Twain my mission I think is to try and get more more people interested in poetry and not just because it’s a lovely thing to listen to or to read but because it can help you so much