This ought to get some attention... maybe. At least I hope it does. Here goes.

Free Verse is not poetry. Free verse is some ass rambling on and pressing the 'enter' key whenever it looks convenient. And though it doesn't go hand in hand with free verse, 'I'm Crazy' poetry is also not poetry. It's stupidity. No, blood is not good, no there aren't voices in your head, yes you're just starved for attention. 

Besides, using poetry to get attention is old school. Especially 'dark' (Translation: Idiotic) Poetry. It's hilarious that noncomformist poets are just conforming to a different social group. 

Back to the point. Free verse is not poetry because it generallly lacks poetic elements. Metaphor and simile appear occasionally, but meter and rhyme don't. Therefore, it's not poetry... you can't leave out elements and still call free verse poetry. It'd be like me writing a short story that was four thousand pages long and saying 'it's a short story, just without the short'.

Thoughts?