On Poetry and Why it Annoys

Why does poetry annoy me?

Well... to start, it takes the carefully constructed rules of the English language and gives them the single fingered salute. As a writer, I consider it rather insulting to see a poem where the concepts of subject, verb, and object are voraciously tossed aside in favor of supposed "artistic expression." Further, when these kinds of barely intelligible spattering of phrases breeds wealth for their genius scribe, it is like seven thousand needles each penetrating sub-epidermally.

We are taught at a young age the danger of fragments. Why? Fragments do not effectively communicate an idea. They communicate that the author is purposely trying to be vague. Hide under the facade of artistic license and development of tone to a heart's extent; it is just laziness.

Also, the term: "it has multiple interpretations." Cop out.