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Are they truly lazy and undisciplined, or is it that the modern life/culture they are trying to portray/distill doesn't lend itself well to the established poetic forms?
Isn't some rap to some extent poetry, though it would never be called such? And probably wouldn't be called such, because doing so it would somehow "soften" it?
Ballet, I "get", probably because I had a year or two of ballet lessons when I was a little kid, so I can both enjoy it and appreciate the work that goes into it. Poetry that rhymes and haiku make sense to me, probably because there is logic and structure in them that I can recognize.
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