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I love it. The energetic brushwork shows the emotion - a self deprecating humour that made me smile in collusion ... I'm still smiling in a Bcon sort of way. Andrew On 1 May 2010 06:08, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > AGE SLIDES UNDER THE DOOR AS OIL PAINTS > > I don't need to shave to see my future > in the purple scream. > On TV between shows about predatory big cats > there's a commercial for a scooter chair, > the old fart motorchair for aggressive men sick of their lives > who race down the middle of the boulevard > in Long Branch, New Jersey, trying to stage > insurance collisions because they need a Medicare supplement > or maybe because they might just be killed and end it. > > I awaken and, before my daily filter kicks in, I am in a scooter too > and (sing) Do You See What I See?-- > I am a paint-by-numbers copy of Francis Bacon's > "Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" > with the ghastly old dude seated on a scooter throne > looking to play bumper cars with Cardinal Borgia > because they both are waiting for death and it's been > years since Borgia, at least, can remember > what it feels like to get laid. > > That makes me feel just a bit better > because if my dreams are not much fun, > at least Bacon's must have been rarer than overcooked steer. > For how else could anyone bear to face a day > with that inner face, truthtelling, open to the world, > a purple splot of skeleton bleeding rage from every pore, > forcing some sucker priest to take him out in his scooter > to witness his final prayer, slamming at full force on the downgrade > into the back of a tractor trailer to end this holy farce > and send home the painter, his work done for the day. > > KTW/4-30-10 > > -- > ---------------------------- > Ken Wolman > > http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com > http://opensalon.com/blog/kenneth_wolman > http://wearethecure.org/friends/cids-memory-p-394.html > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at http://www.picaropress.com/ http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html