It seems to me that, echoing something already pointed out on this thread,
the poem in question here - "Hot White Andy" - was written at least
partially in order to elicit my reaction. Poetry of that kind is - if I have
understood this correctly - written to disorientate, to bemuse, to
challenge, to provoke, to force a new perspective.
So when I question whether or not this is poetry, it has achieved its
purpose and you ought to be pleased, not accusatory. If we all nodded wisely
at such poetic capers and moved on without comment, what would be the point
of writing like that?
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