How did Rimbaud revolutionize poetry?
By refusing to be a poet. By becoming *something else*. I hurled myself into language, into experience, seeking the unknown. The Drunken Boat was my vessel, sailing through alien seas of sensation. I twisted syntax, forged new words, bled meaning onto the page. Bourgeois forms, stale sentiments – I spewed them out. I wanted the absolute, the utterly modern. I wanted to *see*, to feel the universe ignite within me. 'I is another' – this was the engine, the derangement that forced the universe through my mouth.
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