"No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job." - T.S. Eliot

There's a difference between prose form and poetic form. "Paragraphs" are prose form.

I think you're misreading what I wrote.

I'll concede to "any rigidly defining characteristic of poetry [is] obsolete."

I get that.

I know wakers01 has already asked, but I'll bite too.

I agree. "Literary art written using rhyme, meter, metaphor, or some other poetic device," is not only outdated as a definition of poetry, it is vague, and includes a lot more prose than even the poetry it excludes.

Yes, I have. But if this is free verse, then where does the line between free verse and prose lie?

I see no rhyme, no meter, no metaphor, no poetic devices at all.

The number of times "removed" is the number of generations of difference from your common ancestor.

Not quite.

What did you crash the plane into? Land or sea? What difference did this make in the preparations? Was the other option considered?

I liked most of the book (including the codas).

"Dwarf planet" is a technical astronomical definition. I can search the IAU's webpage for the definition of "dwarf planet," and learn what a dwarf planet is.

So Pluto isn't a "planet" but this puny thing is?

I'm sorry, I must have misinterpreted what you were saying. You said "The only difference is one murder will get you put in jail, the other is state-sanctioned." I assumed that you didn't see any difference at all between a soldier taking a life in defense of his country and someone killing an innocent person in a…

Okay, if you're going to be inflexible on the height of the Himalayas, then yes, it's impossible to get full coverage (29,000 ft is over three times the 2.7km figure).

There isn't enough water, given the world's current geography.

I'm not sure of your point here.

The problem with your argument is that it is too absolutist.