What's it all about?

[rayheinrich]

Leanne spake thus: "At the end of the day, it's poetry if the writer
and at least one other person agree that it's poetry -- now, whether
it's good or bad poetry is an entirely different question!"

While I agree with the part that came after the first part, I must
respectfully disagree with the part that came before it. IMHO it
takes only one reader to verify the poemness of a particular collection
of words and that, invariably, is the one who first writes them.
(Except in certain poetry forums where the authors blindly drivel
them out leaving it for the next pathetic soul to do the inpoeming.)


Leanne spake alsoly: Cows are plodders, but look what grows out of their excrement...

Psilocybin mushrooms! She hath seen god(s)!

P.S. And since poems are words:

__Word Meat__
                    - Jeffrey Sullivan

the shape of the word
lets us forget
what is inside
but inside the word
its shape dissolves

eating the meat of words
letting their sweet blood
flow from our mouths
our teeth
deep inside the words
our shape
becomes the shape of words

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