Mike and Amanda are talking about poetry. Hi, Mike. What are you reading? Oh, these are just some books I picked up at a local poetry festival that took place a couple of weeks ago. Even though a lot of what the featured poets read was not in English. it was still neat to see that there are so many people who appreciate poetry in Taiwan. I did not know you were such a poetry lover, Mike. Personally, I 've always found that stuff a little bit boring and hard to understand. All that flowery language gives me a headache! I 'd rather read a nice long novel any day. I 'll admit that poetry's an acquired taste. One of my favorite poets is Billy Collins, who writes really funny, clever poems in simple everyday English. I 'll have to look him up. Say, have you ever written any poetry of your own? Some love sonnets, perhaps? No love sonnets, but I did try to write some poems a long time ago. They were all really bad. Once I spent three hours trying to come up with a word that rhymes with" panda"! Silly Mike! How could you not think of" Amanda"?
