I'm trying too hard.

[rayheinrich]

Marshall McLuhan: "Art is anything you can get away with."
Ray: "In poetry, you don't even have to get away with it."

Well, actually, you do have to get away with it, even if only by a hit and run thought.

"Don't even" means it can go either way.
And...
If you took that thought and used it to write a poem:
Every time someone read it, you'd be returning it.