Steve Roggenbuck, the Internet's version of Whitman, has made me think poetry may not actually be dead to anyone other than poets? Some lines from his awesome/weird YouTube poem, make something beautiful before you are dead:
"this is a fucked up tree; this is three trees coming out of the same tree ...
I want to kiss you on the baseball field in the middle of the night ...
back in my grandfather's day, they didn't have yolo! ...
guess who you can't hug when you're dead ... everyone! ...
you are literally gonna die; make something beautiful before you are dead ...
hey fricker, guess what? we're both alive at the same time!"