whore

[heslopian]

a serious question;
isn't it that poetry sometimes needs to be conceptual art?
doing different tricks, i do agree that it could be conceptual art but i as a reader can see so much depth in such a few words.
what i sometimes wonder is this, if such a poem were just written on a piece of paper and left on a cafe table, would the person who found it and read it think..."this is poetry" sometimes i think this type of poetry has to have the context of a poetic boundary such as a book or forum around it to work properly. here it works jmo

I agree that this work has depth. It simply strikes me as more conceptual art because the concept - a whore being someone who needs attention - seems of greater importance than the aesthetic. No poetic techniques like imagery, metaphor etc. are used. It feels like the presentation of an idea rather than a poetic vision, the kind which a haiku poem conveys by creating an isolated image.
Conceptual art was defined by Sol LeWitt like so: "... the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art." That for me sums up Aish's "whore."
Your point about a poetic context is interesting. I'm more inclined to view "whore" as a poem having read it on this forum than I would if I found it at that cafe table. Maybe it is a poem. Maybe it's both a poem and conceptual art, as your question implies. That would open up the possibility of some conceptual art also being poetry, like this piece by Lawrence Weiner: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...erText.JPG