The following video (via Valerie, via Chris) seems like as good an answer as any to the question of why, in the middle of a high-tech career, I signed up for art school. While this particular piece deals with music, I find it equally applicable to the ongoing question: “why poetry?“
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More Alan Watts–illuminated by the animators of South Park–is available at FreshMinds, including a great piece on perception and the “language of madness” in common between poetry and music.