I’m gonna read you a poem

About Katie and Ben;

“A beginner’s guide” 

To gettin’ to know ‘em

Picture your first encounter: 

“Hey, how’s it goin’?”

(You say, to them—to Katie, and to Ben)

One tall, one port

One catch, one caught

One wordy, one blunt

One kind, one …

Can you see which way this story is flowin’?

I’ll let you in on a secret

But don’t tell Katie and Ben,

Cause if they knew it might throw ‘em.

They process their thoughts in different places.

Ben has an inside brain.

Doesn’t say too much;

Laconic Australian humor as social crutch

Sparing others from all the sausage-making

While his internal information super highway is 

Giving his noggin an floggin’

Katie has an outside brain.

Says more;

Literally invites people in to the sausage making 

And shares the recipe afterwards.

Her friends are her extended neurons.

While their brains might be inside and out

They are made of one heart.

Big, generous, and open.

And so, across the lands, 

From Hobart to Bowen

From Cronulla to Murrumburrah and to Glenrowan;

If your gash needed stitches, together they’d sew 'em

If your garden needed trees, together they’d grow 'em.

So aren’t we all glad, 

Aren’t we all lucky 

That we know ‘em.

— Jacob Taylor