poetry :n.: a piece of literature written in meter; verse. a customer dropped off a book of his poetry for me yesterday. it has a personal signing in it and everything, and all I did was sell him a computer. he's nice, reminds me of my father. I'm going to send him some art as a thank you for his thank you. it is all about weaving a web of obligations and returned favours. note that word verse, wow, it's just popping up everywhere these days. here is a sample from Frederick Candelaria's Liturgies: skinny dip She swam nude, but, for all the liquid passion, I knew by her tail she wasn't a fish (or mermaid) when, like poplars caught by the wind their green leaves turn up silver in sunlight, her golden body flipped in the water, her bright ass laughed and breasts bubbled white like cream streaming suddenly in the iced coffee of the brown river.