Help I don't understand poetry

It is all pretentious shit and makes no sense

(Except Japanese haiku; for some reason they really get to me. OH, and in the ORIGINAL JAPANESE, not the shitty English "translations.")

Poetry, like literary fiction, has become the province of bores. I agree that haikus and other short poems are okay if attached to something else, like if a novel opens with a short poem to introduce the mood or a theme, but I don't actively search for good poetry.

All you have to do to discover if a medium is worth your time is to look at the demographic. I look at the type of people who read poetry and I know that I do not want to end up like that, so I'm pretty sure that poetry is not for me.

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What things do you like? I want to know to avoid them so I don't become like you.