That brings up a notion, MTed -- suppose all poetry should be sung -- even our strange gray abstract intellectual sorts? I can hear Shakespeare's Sonnets marching along to good elizabethan chords, and I can imagine Dylan Thomas lines being backed up by a Welsh modal/minor scale, maybe on a dulcimer. But how about poems by, say, T.S. Eliott? What could they be sung to? Maybe the Phantom of the Opera? Walt Whitman would make some first rate talking blues in paces. Blank verse to Coltrane... the possibilities are endless. Short jazz riffs and blues slides for ee_cummings... and for Ginsberg, maybe something on a four-keyboard calliope organ?