The Team of Losers Decided to Destroy the Rules

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The Modernists implied a doctrine from

Not paradox but contradiction:  Form

  {“Form is emptiness” ~ Takuan}

Is Emptiness.  We hear this falseness thrum

On canvasses by Pollock and the storm

Of “artists” all around him and their train.

The problem was that others making art

(Including poetry) had left a stain

Of unoriginality, a fart

Of same, same, same and so the new ones “thought”

That form was death.  They used this false mistake

To cause catastrophe but what they fought

For was because they failed to cure their ache.

  They needed only to create some new,

    Fresh images in forms, this failure crew.

~ Phillip Whidden