Angela & Uncle Jerry note that Nikki Giovanni's poem 'Poetry' describes poets staying up to midnight with their typewriter in hand, wrapped in their feelings trying to write poetry. Uncle Jerry hears echoes of this in the Midnights album concept and in Dear Reader's bridge where the speaker is up late at night, pacing in her pen, writing alone. The connection is inferred, Uncle Jerry wonders whether Taylor knew Giovanni's work and sees thematic parallels rather than direct quotation.
Uncle Jerry quotes Nikki Giovanni's poem 'Poetry' when Angela describes listening to the 10-minute version alone on her couch late at night. He uses the line about wrapping loneliness around you at night to characterize Angela's experience of hearing the song for the first time, and to connect the act of solitary late-night listening to the creative and emotional experience Giovanni describes.