even "a bag of dirt"

If someone hands me a bag of dirt and tells me it’s a poem, it gets to be a poem. It might not be a poem that satisfies me intellectually or brings me any delight, I may not want to spend much time with it, but it’s a poem because the person who built it called it a poem.

— Kaveh Akbar (@KavehAkbar) March 18, 2019