Monday Morning Required Listening. Today I bring you not something to read, but something to listen to. I've already told you of my love for spoken word poetry, so it should come as no surprise that I'm posting about it yet again. I don't know if it's normal to develop a celebrity crush on a spoken word poet, but I definitely have a crush on Phil Kaye. I think he is kind of adorable, and I admire his work deeply. If you are anything like me, when you hear him perform, you'll laugh, you'll be moved, and then you will get sucked into the vortex of YouTube listening to everything can find by him. Here's an entry point into that delightful vortex: Phil Kaye's "Beginning, Middle & End."