The Treachery of Images by Magritte
This is not a poem about a pipe that’s not a pipe
Nor, indeed, is it about a pipe that is.
It’s not a poem, it’s about nothing; merely meant to take a snipe
At the sort of folk that Art sets all a fizz.
So which is better, or which worse, out of the picture and the verse?
Which is most not the thing the artist claims it isn’t?
Since the poem seems a poem and the picture at least terse
Please choose the picture; it makes the more expensive present.
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