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istara · 4102 days ago · link · · parent · post: Breaking the mold a bit, but I think the opening line of James Crumley's novel "The Last Good Kiss" is a poem in and of itself
If you want to class that as poetry, then fair enough. Everyone can make their own definitions. "Poetry" as a concept can be applied in abstract ways to many things. But poetry-as-in-poem: that doesn't wash for me. If you are deliberately not using any of the structural conventions that differentiate poetry and prose, why you need to call it poetry?