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Unread 04-29-2022, 06:15 PM
Michael Cantor Michael Cantor is offline
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This is cheating, in a sense, because I am pairing arguably the most famous painting of the last 100 years with a poem which I still have not workshopped because it's a bitch and I'm not happy with it. But the two work together, and the painting lifts the poem.. Now all I have to do is get that Pablo guy to use his talent to work on S5. And, oh yeah, to let me publish the painting. (The one I'm showing is an Etsy copy - yours for $199.99.)

Marching Orders

Thrust and thrust and thrust and thrust and thrust
until you cannot think to close your eyes,
until your throat is choked with blood and lust,

and everything you’ve touched has turned to dust.
Regather then, and let your passion rise,
and thrust and thrust again, and thrust and thrust,

because the one emotion you can trust
is fear, and you must never compromise
until your ears are choked with blood and lust.

So bomb and burn and leave the ruins to rust;
ignore the truth and radiate your lies,
and thrust each day and night, and thrust and thrust.

Each people has its heritage: you must
be true to ours, respect the ancient ties
until our throats are choked with blood and lust.

Bomb and bomb and bomb and bomb and just
ignore them all, their weeping and their cries;
but thrust and thrust and thrust and thrust and thrust
until the world explodes in blood and lust.


https://i.etsystatic.com/25047203/r/...41443_qhci.jpg

Last edited by Michael Cantor; 04-30-2022 at 09:40 AM.
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