the place of poetry among discourses

[SirBrendan]

Hey, I left school at fifteen. I didn't join the navy, but instead traveled Canada looking for love. Navy seems like a much better call.

I remember, while traveling, there was a book given to me, 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". In it, the authour pointed out that despite the hippies protestations that industry was hideous, a scar on the earth, he felt otherwise. He saw industry as art, an art of precise mathematical form being applied by craftsmen of perfection to a practical purpose. I would never have agreed with that position until I saw it articulated in that exact way. Ever since the whole world holds a different view for me.

If however, he had have phrased it as, 'the hippies are losers full of shit and themselves (redundant); industry is beautiful' I would most certainly not have had such an enlightening change in perspective. Poetry is an exercise in developing the package it comes in.

I'm sorry for being so aggressive, I just didn't like the way the conversation was turning from legitimate challenges of thought to verbal 'I will mess you up' attitudes.

Oh, and Milo, my Marx, Proudhon, and Stirner are way sexier than any Fukiyamas or Spinozas