artwork: pablo picasso
Looking for Picasso on eBay
by
Michael Gessner
My
wife loves art and it is her birthday.
Because
of this, I am looking for Picasso
on
eBay. Among the thousands
of
lithographs signed & numbered
in
pencil, I find "Paloma sur fond rouge,"
&
bid the balance of my bank account.
Now
I am in electronic Picassoland,
among
the mixed media, how prolific
he
was, and varied, and how unlike
the
literary artist, bound to one voice,
denied
their periods during a life,
confined
so often to a single genre.
But
this does not matter to my wife.
She
will frame this tortured thing
I
have ordered, praising Picasso,
his
artistic gluttony, his infant self,
how
he left his true believers, the women,
a
man after his own heart.
~
previously published in Transversales (BlazeVOX)
