Diana used to say that her earliest attempt at poetry was at Nazareth Academy in Rochester:
Latin’s a dead language,
Dead as it can be.
First it killed the Romans,
Now it’s killing me.
When people would tell her she was a natural, she’d reply:
I’m just a poet
Who didn’t know it.
That last line she’d remind folks was lifted from the words to the Sinatra tune, “Quarter to Three”