from: O'Hara Epigraph and a Dozen over a Previous Century's Remote: Memorex MVT 2195 circa 1997
...and I was getting to feel like a robot. (32) ... the artist's duty to his time has nothing to do with whether he likes it or not, any more than Picasso liked the idea of the town of Guenica being bombed, or the Renaissance painters liked to have Christ crucified over and over again. (29) --Frank O'Hara, "Teens Quiz A Critic: 'What's With Modern Art?' " (Bill Berkson, Ed., 2925 Higgens St., Austin,TX: Mike and Dale's Press,1999) [many thanks to Dale Smith of Skanky Possum Press, for sending me the wonderful What's With Modern Art? --cm]
1.
As it is speechless
plastic on the table beside
the living, it calls
on an Odyssey of things: words are always
necessary & at hand
over miniscule plant & hermit
crab or all pettable others
of exo or flesh
2.
Only beings to speak of I
enter the program still
& rest there furry
with pollen electricity
across Trojan other
walls like pictures taken where talk can call on a plastic black
gloss is one
word you
& mask
another
or to find is
an entire waterless
planet rising
blent here at monitor pleasure
dawn or yes yellow
poppyseed cake is sweet
to expel: "oh"--
or contingency
to revelations not
revolution
...
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