Rappers and MC's

[rayheinrich]

... performance art. Poetry is words on a page ...

Evolutionary-succession-wise:
1. Mouth
2. Ear
3. Hand
4. Eye (image forming)

Mouth -> Ear:   Speech

Hand -> Eye:   Writing

Mouth -> Asshole*:   Poetry

*The asshole evolved almost immediately after the mouth as animals with mouths
alone tended to quickly fill and explode. But, as luck would have it, one of those
very explosions threw our primogenitor on its ass against some primordial pinnacle
which tore it a new (and wholly first) asshole from which we have all descended.
Unfortunately (from the effect of one of those pesky dualisms that eastern religions
are always going on about), as mouths created assholes; assholes created poetry.
The world became so full of poetry that most of these poor animals were forced, by
the very act of opening their newly acquired mouths, to eat it and die. But our
dialectical forebearers (as Hegel would have it), were not only able to exist,
but to flourish, on this incestuous diet. And while environmentalists have come to
call it recycling, we proudly progenous assholes everywhere have come to call poetry.

... that's a different animal ...

(poet is 3rd from left)