When we were teenagers he was really nice, and then a really big fat dick, and now he's nice again and has stayed like that for quite some time. Jim paints poems. When you sit down to write a poem, unless you're performing some sort of exercise for a class, you're not restricted to any sort of form. Oh but you are. People tend to write either on word processors or paper, which means poems have lines, and one word can only appear on one line.
Words link to each other by proximity.
Writing, executed through these tools, consists of letters, the occassional number, puncutation, and spacing or creative formatting. A bold here, an underline there, maybe a few extra indents, a skipped line, a void where a word should be. He can attach a word to a visual image, he can isolate a word or thought visually. Text is just something for which he happens to have mad talent. His colors are so expressive they're an emotional dissertation in and of themselves.