what is poetry?

[rayheinrich]

Anything less than 457 words.

what about Gaiman's 99 word short story?
also, does this mean that Endymion and The Waste Land are not poetry?

You're too fast for me. Whole thing was:

Anything less than 457 words.

(Sounds simplistic, but it's actually more accurate than most other definitions.)

Accurate, NOT foolproof.
The 457 comes from a paper that shows this definition is correct 90% of the time on 'modern' (since 1930) wordage.

Show me one that's better.