from THE DEVIL’S NEW DICTIONARY
Poet, n. 1. A person who uses his or her erudition and vocabulary to exclude the readers he or she then chastises for being excluded. 2. One who experiences life more intensely than the rest of us and then makes us feel bad by writing about it. 3. One who values one’s own enterprise beyond all others, despite or because of the fact that the enterprise is not valued at all by anyone else. 4. One who makes small crafts out of paper and sails them on a sea of indifference.
Poetic, adj. Something that fails to be poetry by striving to be poetry.
Poetry, n. A narrowing of the prose for which there is no known cure.
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