a point arose about this is not poetry

[leesharks]

Though he meant it sarcastically, I'll quote Erthona here:

Well and one has to be serious to make the poem work, if your not serious then the poem can't work in any non-meaningful way, but no matter how much a poem works, it rarely makes any money, and certainly not enough to support itself, so in that sense a poem is like an ugly girl, which is to say they are better left dead. At least that's what Lee and Han Son told me before Carrot Sale made a damn fool of himself again, but he can't help it because he's too stupid to know he is doing it, so in that way too he is like a poem. When you think about it everything is like a poem, except a poem, which is a poem.

"When you think about it, everything is like a poem, except a poem, which is a poem."

I'm not sure there's anything left to be said on the subject.