Someone I know just today described breaking an electronic device as "letting the smoke out". Those four simple words are funny and beautiful, simultaneously a

Someone I know just today described breaking an electronic device as "letting the smoke out". Those four simple words are funny and beautiful, simultaneously absurd and reasonable. To me this is poetry. Elegance, in the mathematical sense, only the problem space is describing things, rather than proving them. Rather than not "getting" poetry, I think you can settle for simply arguing that it isn't poetry, or that you don't like it. Surely though, with a degree in creative writing, you've found something to be poetic.