Johnson was shoving aside her shyness to get up in front of thousands of her peers to share her heart with slam poetry. Johnson, now 17, was one of a handful of students in the Sioux Falls School ...

Jimmy concludes the poem, first published when Rosalynn was in her late 60s, by writing, "With shyness gone and hair caressed with gray, her smile still makes the birds forget to sing and me to ...