It’s national poetry month
Everyone gets so nervous about it being the first of April
Don’t make jokes about suicide
Cheating
Divorce
Pregnancy
Etc
And all of that is very true
But
I get excited about poetry …
About writing 30 for 30
A poem a day
About looking again
At the past
And what inspires me
To make this a safe space
An encouraging space
An escape
And opening the door for literature
And excitement
And poetry
I honestly do not know
How much fun was made today
Reality lately has been so much weirder than fiction
And what we see is not what we heard
And everyone is speaking in subtitles written with Rose Art by Klingons…
And you know that shit crumbles right off the page
It is unreliable
But
I want to encourage you
To keep your voice
Because
When you remain calm
Even a sentence or a gesture
Is a hurricane.
Knowledge is power.
We used to burn people for looking to the stars.
Now we measure their distance.
Their light.
And we study gravitational waves.
When turbulence was an issue
We found a way to fly above the weather
Continue
To move forward this month
And this year
Because
We can’t look back
We are not going that way.
This first poem in the 30 for 30
Is for you. 
Regarding Samuel 