A serious question: Why is this not a poem?

Leanne:

I dont' know if just changing a statement would be enough. I suspect it must have a greater meaning beyond the initial statement.

a blue cow
chews blue grass
in not-vermont

is still not a poem, i dont' think, unless something is added to give it a context, or to change that from a statement to a metaphor. As an example, if th epoem were titled: "The Politics of Bernie Sanders" -- I think, then it is (perhaps) a bad poem. (Bernie Sanders being a socialist congressman from Vermont)