Art

                 Art

Why photograph a fact when you can catch

A nightmare, be a Jackson Pollock or

A Dalí at his Druid weirdest?  Snatch

A depth of fanged subconscious and then pour

Some paint of guts across your canvas.  Real

Is boring.  Ditch it.  Art becomes mirage

And mystic queasiness inside a squeal.

Eschew the common or make a collage

Of it that churns up nausea.  The key

Trick is to mix up meaning or to ban

It.  Spread some purple fantasy and brie

Across a beach.  Jesus on a divan

With hydrogen bomb mushroom clouds would do

Or cover some swallows with Elmer’s Glue.