but rather with something to think.
Something that makes other people think.
A poet needs to figure out what makes people tick, and display, artfully, the craftiness of human nature,
which is really just an artful mess.
The problem with being a poet is that you think in circles and rectangles and squares and other shapes
and end up back where you started.
Perhaps making a 360 isn't the worst thing in the world,
but as a poet, your main objective is to make progress
and you can't do that if you're constantly starting over.
The problem with being a poet is making sense of the world --
of images and sounds --
through words.
You could say everything with just one photograph or drawing,
but to equate that equals, give or take,
one thousand words.
So the problem with that is that by the time a poet has come up with the
thinking patterns and explanations,
a thousand words
is too few.
