KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- John Keats exchanged letters with J.H. Reynolds. William Wordsworth did the same with Charles Lamb.
The newest poetic correspondence involves two Tennessee football players, Twitter, a campus walkway, a field surface monitoring device and, of course, bacon. The dialogue is vibrant, occasionally confusing and almost always entertaining.
It illustrates the unique friendship between two of the Vols' best and most popular seniors: linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin (@Finally_Maybin) and running back Alvin Kamara (@A_kamara6).
"They're pretty close," Tennessee quarterback Joshua Dobbs said. "They love the Twitter game. They're into it with their 'exquisite' and all their vocabulary.