I guess I must have been poking through the cards for an awful long time, lingering from one card to another, because the clerk in the Hallmark store came over and said, "Sir, is there a problem?"
"Yeah," I sighed, "I can't find one my wife will believe."
"Corduroy" comes from the French, "cord du roi" or "cloth of the king."
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
~Rita Dove