poetry was hushed or ushered out from being compared with philosophy, well... bye bye systematisation leave you to it... it's hardly an art, given it only uses two extremes that can't be defined as colour, but more or less x-ray vision... i know... so much colour and so much perfumery surrounding me that i wish to not replicate... hence the stance... important dates like the battle of Hastings (1066), or the great fire of London (1666) - such importance goes hand in hand with being up-to-date for a quiz show, alt. to knowledge? quiz or trivia. poetry is that: it's the sole mediator of history and journalism, entry of Darwin on a 10 quid banknote, poetry has to marry someone else, it can't be stuck in a rut with pompous philosophy, and it's too crude to munch off a sharpened flint-stone (Flintstones? Hanna-Barbera?! *******) of Pythagoras' cubism - cubism, you sure? only cubes herrscht? well hardly, Marilyn Manson is still an introvert anomaly in Essex amongst the zombies... as i heard in a HMV, one of the last strongholds of the mutilated high-street and the death of the postman profession... they're going, those postmen, you hear? among the carrier pigeons shot down dead! unlike Sartre i'm making a claim: evolution precedes adaptability... essence indeed first and existence last... and with regards to poetry, that great mediator of journalism and history... ten sixty six mattered as much as today's article headlined: GAMBLING ADDICT 'DIED OF SHAME'... hmm? it does... you can just immediately pick out the correlation for a national egoism. if it weren't for skin-heads the metal rock enthusiasts would have been called meat-heads for head-banging too much: smooch smooch (x x in slang).