Just A Poet

There are/have been many poets better than me

that have died unread, unknown.

There are many flowers in the woods no one

will ever see.

Art is beauty and truth and just happens because

humans can’t help themselves and that’s the way

it is and should be.

Machine conglomerates put on shows that are

predictable, banal, and full of cliche, not art,

just another mechanism of control. 

Chaim Soutine (I love his name best of all)

painted rotting beef carcasses he hung in

his apartment, slathering them with blood

so he could keep painting them fresh.

It got him  out of poverty, but he died anyway

indirectly because of the Nazis.

Nazi “art” was brutal and simplistic.

It was propaganda lies in the form of art.

The Nazis shot Lorca in a field.

Disney does similar, albeit less violent,

travesties in the USA to the same end.

A country without art is a country without a heart.

Luckily, the beat goes on.

Krag watches, amused.

(For those playing the home game, that’s a clue.)