> Yet the program construct, unlike the poet’s words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself

> Yet the program construct, unlike the poet’s words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. This is true of poetry as well. The pattern with which you arrange words in sentences, and sentences in paragraphs, can summon up an infinite number of visuals in someone's head. Words are brilliant in that they are literally the bridge between two people's minds. The poet is the programmer of the imagination. There is value in both the words themselves and images that the poet/programmer elicits.