poem of the day 05.06.14

some notes on american art

in the twenty-first century

we’ve been in the museum for over an hour

and i don’t understand a thing in this exhibit

it’s the usual shit that has passed for art

ever since christ left chicago

paintings with no definition or structure

sculptures that look more like sex toys

video monitors splattered with paint

featuring images of women being assaulted

in one room an artist has depictions of violence on the wall

while on the floor he has sex dolls in various positions

their plastic vaginas gaping and filled with newspaper headlines

it must be me

everyone else looks so enthralled with what they’re seeing

people are taking pictures and scribbling their thoughts

while i’m walking around looking at photographs of penises

and women being finger-fucked by someone off-camera

while i’m walking around wondering what’s for lunch

the biographies of the artists pasted to the wall

are almost novel-sized in their length

because they’ve been tasked with explaining the art

because no one understands what they’re really doing now

one artist is obsessed with crisscross patterns

another artists just loves making shapes and lines

i wish there was a painting of a cityscape or a portrait here

something worth the twenty-bucks it took to get in

something a guy like me could understand

but instead i’m treated to a painting of oblong shapes

mounted on glossy wood with heavy-duty string

because the artist spent fifteen years

trying to figure out how to mix

painting and sculpture together

well…congratulations

i think, so this is what it is now

american art in the twenty-first century

where the method of madness

has completely overshadowed the end result

imagine if van gogh were alive!

maybe i should get on board with this wave

i mean just like the art here this poem wasn’t much to read

but it was written on

an HP AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 830 processor 2.80 GHz

with a 64-bit operating system

using windows 7 home premium

with one terabyte of memory

in its internal hard drive

and maybe that’s what really matters now.