poetics

poetry need not be fancy or hi-falutin' poetry is ordinary & common like breathing eating sleeping shitting etc etc poetry can be learned in the classroom or in the streets poetry is words on the page & on the screen poetry is drawing painting & film poetry is sound poetry is visual poetry is the action between anger sadness awe hate love & sex poetry begins in the mind & the sex poetry likes to eat & drink poetry is a music video & a film poetry can hang in a museum & be inked on the skin poetry is in binary language & the pixels of social media poetry is bound in cloth & paper poetry doesn't care if you have a graduate degree for it lives within every sentient being open to her poetry is not a muse but poetry likes you anyway