Lacking

Where are the poets from the other side,
The voices of whimsy, of hope, of despair?
Where do they hide?
Or are they not there?

Moo

About twenty years ago, Fiorella started having trouble remembering a certain word so she worked out a clever way to access it.

First she thinks of "cow," because the word means one who is going along with the herd. "Cow" makes her think of "cow palace," which leads her to "convention center," which brings up the word she's after: CONVENTIONAL!

Which Fio obviously is not.