a human study in complete disinterest-
a bored security guard in uniform
that denies any individuality/he
could be any study for Rembrandt
(age indeterminate)-unframed
bound to the past by menial pay.
I watched him more than her
believed that myth of Mona
as being self-portrait of the artist
wondered how many tea towels had that smile
how many postcards hid that secret
Da Vinci Code or not-what seemed most important
was this relationship -between guard and captive/
framed and un-wondering which was hung
for years until retirement
Is this not the way with art?
We pay for what we can afford
admire in a timeshare?
THE NEED FOR
Who you are less important than what you stand for.
Mao purged ,we starved-his image lives
despite Great Leaps backward in currency corruption
Stalin's statue (like Saddams)-taken from the public eye
while more still mourn the murder of Georgians
Young Elvis gold on stamps like Michael Jackson
not Fat Elvis bloated as a gold hamburger
nor Michael's reconstructive Frankenstein surgeries
Image sells-as Warhol held Marilyn frozen's corpse
in lurid screenprints' 7 year itch/skirt hitched
not the murdered Mafia nembutal corpse
Argentine Holy Cards are Soccer Heroes
Here NBA sports heroes-rapists,AIDS infested dope smokers..
Make miniature heroes-she who smiles/he who serves
They who need no heroic proportions
visiting elderly /caring for vulnerable
Someone other than Narcissus loving self-image
Love the invisible ones-whose connection
is as tenuous as ours.They do not need heroics
They simply live as best they can..
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