 Could it be I'm falling in love? The spinners at number 34. Now the superstar whose most important social asset in high school was his writing talent. He tells it like this. I was a shy kid in Brooklyn, so instead of talking to girls directly, I used to give them poems asking for dates. And you know, it worked. In fact, some of the other guys used my poems, and I became kind of a hit poet. End of quote.