Still, that poetry is only emotional truth. A great poem can manifest a correct perspective and touch us deeply as true. Still, it can also be abstract and symbolic, general against a world that requires a resume that lists a skill set that has no "structure, form, speaker, sound devices, figurative language, rhyme, meter, theme, tone, mood, syntax, and diction," Sudip Das Gupta.

My friend, a poet without a job, sees Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a representation of what it takes to stay alive. He is frantic.