LOVE IS BLUE REVISITED
There is youngish woman today
gazing at the Gutfreund sculpture
enraptured She lives in machinery
head-gear oxygen packs hanging
on her chair She is pale almost
blue like the statue But she is here
Woman in chair has broken into song:
You’ve gotta live a little die a little
She is inches from me smiling pretty
She is saintful grateful & somehow free
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Winter 2014 A.G.O. Jean Metzinger Woman With Fan 1911-1912
MODERN METROPOLIS
Mother & daughter in front of a Picasso
1900 Paris night club scene in motion
Candles flicker faces blurry around edges
Women triumphant no she-goats in sight
Daughter many shades of blonde examines
the piece 6 inch stilettos fur tails hang asymmetrically
Leopard print dress drum tight
Mother sensible coat & shoes hair several hues
of blonde too Both have a bald spot mid-head
Mother’s more progressed
Daughter eyes me menacingly her beauty creeping
toward the exit Mother was always more interesting
Lingers in front of Kandinsky as daughter poses for
art patrons not beguilingly
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New Technology in mother’s era:
cellophane
elevators
pop-up toasters
mustard gas
automobiles
hand grenades
Winter 2014 Art Gallery Of Ontario The Great Upheaval Picasso
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