Regarding finished novels, that would be around 120k.

When I was 16, I wrote a single word poem and did reading of it. Expressing the word in as many ways as I could. "Aardappel" (potato)

This was after I recited a poem that was simply counting in various rhythms and intonations. They let me get up to 316.

My point was that the rhythm and delivery are a crucial part of poetry, but they expected a poem about boys and romance, so kicked me out.