Ukiyoe Replaced

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The tastes of snooty people change, but not

The tastes of normal folks.  They know the sort

Of newer poetry is really snot

And that is why they turn away and snort

At stupid stuff like abstract art, like Klee

And Jackson Pollock.  Yes, his stuff is like

Pollock making a mess; photo by Hans Namuth

The cum shots from a mind or more like pee

Sprayed over canvas.  Normal eyes shout, “Yike!”

And turn to view some art, some normal art,

Some beauty with no alcoholic “thought”

Behind it, something far less like a fart

In poseur picture frame or spewed out clot.

  We’re far enough away from that in time

    That we can call artistic crime a crime.

~ Phillip Whidden