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-title: 'Ars poetica'
-project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
-project-order: 11
-genre: 'prose'
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-What is poetry?  [Poetry is.][is]  Inasmuch as life is, so is poetry.  Here is
-the problem: life is very big and complex.  Human beings are neither.  We
-are small, simple beings that don’t want to know all of the myriad
-interactions happening all around us, within us, as a part of us, all
-the hours of every day.  We much prefer knowing only that which is just
-in front of our faces, staring us back with a look of utter contempt.
-This is why many people are depressed.
-
-Poetry is an attempt made by some to open up our field of view, to maybe
-check on something else that isn’t staring us in the face so
-contemptibly.  Maybe something else is smiling at us, we think.  So we
-write poetry to force ourselves to look away from the [mirror][] of our
-existence to see something else.
-
-This is generally painful.  To make it less painful, poetry compresses
-reality a lot to make it more consumable.  It takes life, that seawater,
-and boils it down and boils it down until only the salt remains, the
-important parts that we can focus on and make some sense of the
-senselessness of life.  Poetry is life bouillon, and to thoroughly enjoy
-a poem we must put that bouillon back into the seawater of life and make
-a delicious soup out of it.  To make this soup, to decompress the poem
-into an emotion or life, requires a lot of brainpower.  A good reader
-will have this brainpower.  A good poem will not require it.
-
-What this means is: a poem should be self-extracting.  It should be a
-rare vanilla in the bottle, waiting only for someone to open it and
-sniff it and suddenly there they are, in the orchid that vanilla came
-from, in the tropical land where it grew next to its brothers and sister
-vanilla plants.  They feel the pain of having their children taken from
-them.  A good poem leaves a feeling of loss and of intense beauty.  The
-reader does nothing to achieve this—they are merely the receptacle of
-the feeling that the poem forces onto them.  In a way, poetry is a crime.
-But it is the most beautiful crime on this crime-ridden earth.
-
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