A poem can consist of a single word;
poetry can be inadvertently created
in ignorance or sheer stupidity;
take someone like Sarah Palin
who used to be accused of uttering
'word-salads'; as suspect as u might
suppose that to be, it heralded
a resurgence of poetry; anyone
w/ two ears can hear words but ears
are all but useless when listening to
poetry; Emily Dickinson said that
poetry ought to blow the top
of one's head off but u have to be
paying attention; reading or listening
for that to happen, otherwise the noise
is as subtle as classic Brian Eno;
poetry can be silence, emptiness or
nothing at all as if poetry exists or
doesn't regardless of the existence
of anything else; in the beginning was
the word would be better expressed
as in the beginning was poetry and
poetry will remain when all things
have passed away; poetry is composed
of letters but no single letter is a poem
or if it is there are letters of which
we are unaware & meanings yet to be
discovered as there are languages
which we are as yet unable
to speak