i typed this in an aim conversation a few years ago

i don’t want to view poetry the same way a business man views making progress reports

i was thinking too

(i think a lot about the theory of poetry, but i never write it down…i think maybe because i don’t want to commit to it…i want it to be susceptible to change)

anyway

in study of lit

we talked about literature (or all of art) adapting the jargon structure of science

as in

the same way we talk about science we must talk about art

but i think that’s wrong

because art, no matter what art you want to talk about, never created the atomic bomb, or biological warfare

i do not think art should be discussed like science in any manner

because art’s purpose is to defend us against all that terrible garbage humanity has lined up for us

and i think, no matter what artist, they have some understanding of this

because…the rest of the world is moving one way, and the artist is moving counter to that

though the art itself may not reflect it in any way

the artist however is always a revolutionary figure

thoughts like that…are why i don’t write every day…because having a thought like that is just as good as writing a poem