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This is a poem
Great!
I love poetry!
Is this going to be a love poem?
...No.
But it's a poem.
Ok then...
What about an examination of the human condition
...No.
But it's still a poem.
Alright, I can still do this...
Will it use a lot of flowery language?
...nope, nope and nope.
Still a poem though.
You're not making this easy, you know that...
I got it!
...Still no.
You're just not getting it; you're trying to make this poem fit within the conventions of poetry that you have been taught, but the very purpose of this poem is to acknowledge those conventions, demonstrate a clear understanding of them and then make the conscious decision to--
Hang on a second!
That's not poetry!
That's prose!
...no it's not!
YES IT IS!!!
...how do YOU know? It could just be a very long line.
And what about this back-and-forth?
A conversation isn't poetry!
It's just a script!
Why cannot scripts be poetry?
The works of Shakespeare are scripts
Is Hamlet not poetry?
...FINE!
Then tell me
If this is indeed a poem
How is this so?
This is a poem
Because I say it is
...what?
That doesn't make sense!
It doesn't follow any of the rules
Or conventions
Or traditions
This can't be a poem in name only,
That would make it...
...what would you call it...
I know:
An ANTI-POEM!
True
But even anti-poetry is still poetry.
In the same way
That negative numbers are still numbers
Or that backwards is still a direction
Do you understand?
...I guess so...
There we have it!
Poetry is poetry
Because both author and reader
Have agreed that it is so
And furthermore,
Having now communicated my point
I think
that this poem
should end
right
here.
Great!
I love poetry!
Is this going to be a love poem?
A heartfelt address to the love of my life?
A lament for the one I love but can never have?
A requiem for lovers long since lost?
...No.
But it's a poem.
Ok then...
What about an examination of the human condition
A hard look at life with all its twists and turns
The troubles, the blessings, the joys, the sorrows
And all the memories in between that weave the tapestry of life?
...No.
But it's still a poem.
Alright, I can still do this...
Will it use a lot of flowery language?
Eschewing the intelligible comprehensibility of pedestrian parlance?
Sophisticatedly communicating eloquent arrears of significance?
And reveling in the academically articulate and audaciously alliterative adoration of purple prose?
...nope, nope and nope.
Still a poem though.
You're not making this easy, you know that...
I got it!
Perhaps Dactylic Tetrameter is key
Just like Doctor Seuss, if you're following me
Or grouping the lines into clusters of three
...Still no.
You're just not getting it; you're trying to make this poem fit within the conventions of poetry that you have been taught, but the very purpose of this poem is to acknowledge those conventions, demonstrate a clear understanding of them and then make the conscious decision to--
Hang on a second!
That's not poetry!
That's prose!
...no it's not!
YES IT IS!!!
...how do YOU know? It could just be a very long line.
And what about this back-and-forth?
A conversation isn't poetry!
It's just a script!
Why cannot scripts be poetry?
The works of Shakespeare are scripts
Is Hamlet not poetry?
...FINE!
Then tell me
If this is indeed a poem
How is this so?
This is a poem
Because I say it is
...what?
That doesn't make sense!
It doesn't follow any of the rules
Or conventions
Or traditions
This can't be a poem in name only,
That would make it...
...what would you call it...
I know:
An ANTI-POEM!
True
But even anti-poetry is still poetry.
In the same way
That negative numbers are still numbers
Or that backwards is still a direction
Do you understand?
...I guess so...
There we have it!
Poetry is poetry
Because both author and reader
Have agreed that it is so
And furthermore,
Having now communicated my point
I think
that this poem
should end
right
here.
I love anti-art in all it's forms!
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Meta-poetry. I like it 