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YVES KLEIN

	via/of Rotraut Klein


View I had of
painting was calling me up to look
at it--
who could have made it?

Drives me crazy of
receptive of
the queen of bees--
holding your breath with him.


Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 6-30-10 (3:01 PM)

Initially drafted while witnessing a guided conversation with the widow of the major visual artist Yves Klein.  Editing within the found line became the strategy which worked on the rare and recalcitrant second language.  Three revision sessions, the last of which just ended with a touch of punctuation.