It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
“I believe that connecting with other moms is so important; after all, we are all on this crazy journey together and no one understands what we're going through better than each other.”
“From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.”