It's all poetry, don't you see?

poetry is rhymes
poetry is mimes
poetry is rhythm, beat, drumming

poetry is subtle
poetry is secret
poetry is "what the fuck does that mean?"

But isn't an essay the same thing?
Don't they speak careful words, with a hidden-obvious agenda,
exercising a politics of persuasion?

They mastermind mood and tone
with their choice of lexicon and style.
Isn't that everything?

that thing you wish you'd said
the knows-the-right-thing-to-say-guy words
his barbaric bluntness and inconsideration

her double-sided bitchiness
and the words you wish you can find
to describe her will, her passion, her strength

the moaning in the other bedroom
melodic, rhythmic and rhyming
and the bewilderment of jealousy nearby

but at the same time that spark of interest
from television, the poetry-machine
designed for the poetry of attention-capture

allowing a more comforting replacement poetry
in the stead of the unpleasant ones
surrounding your every insecure day

the music videos groovin' all sexy
a soulful yet seductive poetry
not so unlike those gorgeous news reporters we see

those journalists interpreting the world
disseminating their poetry of objectivity
fashioned, designed for as much factual consumption

and the politics that starts the world's wars
every crafted message poetry
setting tenor, tone; crafting will

the killing that ensues
the sheer magnitude of waste and tragedy captured
in the poetries of the victims

the science and technology that heals them
the cold, objective beauty of their poetic methods and equations
magical, obvious, mind-blowing, reproducible

that holiness of religion that guides them
that humility, power, righteousness, spirituality
unknowable but captured ("it MUST be!") in The Word's poetry

the debating amongst us all
the disagreements, the cooperations; political poetry
because poetry is politics is everything

for those so-called "successful" ones around us
are the mythical "perfect people"
the ones who have found their poetry

but they're only a legend for inspiration
legendary only in their remarkability
because their full personal poetry is mortality-constrained

and because your pursuit of happiness is fated
in the poetry of your mind, to discover your personal poetry is
to discover your poetry of happiness