Well I don't read poetry - and I actually resist the temptation
   to write it - I would write poetry all day if I allowed myself
   to.

   Long ago, I decided to incorporate poetry into prose, resisting
   the need to rhyme, have meter, and such. I _want_ to do all of
   those things, but I also want to speak the language of regular
   people.

   I also stay away from fiction as well... and it's helped me see
   how much of what we construe of reality _is_ a constructed
   fiction for our own benefit...- and how all knowledge is
   stories, whatever the form. There's no real line between fiction
   and reality; fiction speaks to non-fiction things, which is how
   we comprehend it at all - and non-fiction is full of plausable
   connections between things and yet, if one is to prick beneath
   the surface of anything non-fiction - even mathematics...
   there''s always another digit... always another perspective
   missed... rendering the whole thing, from an 'everything' point
   of view... fictional as well.

   In short, no different. All in the application of it.