what poetry is: a cacophony of tangled-up images and slashed-to-the-bone words. a waterfall of bitterness and passion and (words, just words). a jumble of unorthodox punctuation, and spacing, and spelling, a painting with verses of rainbow-colored years. foggy-eyed venting, bitter-mouthed shouting, soft-hearted pleas to the people (hearts and love). not-quite sentences, half-finished ideas, cliches and brutal originalities, shocking in their genuine and raw and profoundly inspired power (things we didn't know we were capable of). cravings and achings and wantings and knowings and (words, just words). so won't you read between the lines? it's all so much simpler