Poetry is a memory technology to remember, as Robert Frost says, what it would impoverish us to forget.

I read this now. #poetry

This is great. I read similar ideas in The White Godless by Robert Graves. Also I think it is like DNA where one base only fits with another specific one, preserving important information. In poetry the meter and rhymes ensure that only the correct words fit

Welp, time to listen to everything this guy has to say.

You need Oulipo. It is the way of the future.

And rhyme and meter help memory, but they have mostly disappeared from 'poetry.'

You know what predates poetry and the oral tradition? Dance. There's a reason why poetry keeps rhythmic pace with breath and is measured in feet. We are primarily embodied creatures.

The Hudson River School of Painting also has a similar concept but it’s about expanding visual memory and the quality thereof.

@walterkirn So much poetry tidal waves out of me on the daily, poetry that is completely lost on my ding ding family.

They're Eating the dogs They're Eating the cats They're Eating the pets of the people that live there