by Martin Anton Smith martinantonsmith@gmail.com
Afraid Of The Real World?
Become A Blob
Work In The Paint Sector
Work In Red Paint Town Yellow Paint Town Or Blue Paint Town
Strike A Bold Line
On Your Blank Canvas
Or Produce Nothin’ At All
And Wail Reverently At The Pub About Having “Painters Block”
Or Paint Ditch Diggers For Topsoil & Coal Miners For Warmth
Or Wall Street Bankers For Store Credit
Whine About Your Lot Artistically
Cultivate A Wily Look On the Lips
Where the Ladies Swoon & Whisper To Each Other
‘Is It Or Isn’t It An Upside-Down Smile He Has’
While Away Hours Away In Basements
While You Frantically Search For The ‘Energy’
Create Your Collages
Sit Right Next To Your Ideas
You’ll Never Ride The Gravy Train
But You Can Slurp the Latte
Never Eat Meat Again
If You Want The Coolest Artistic Friends
Ride On The Far Left
On Your Expensive Trendy Bike
Into the Blurred Sunset
That’s Covered In Emboldened Rain Clouds
While The Wild Philo Blue Wind Batters You
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I Ask Of You
What Could Go Wrong
When You Live Color Central
With Your Head In The Imported Tea
Holding Never Much Cash
For You think It Appears Only In Dreams
You Love Blobby Paint Strokes
Your Blobbyness Will Come Back To Haunt You
When One Day The Photo-Realistic Real World
Knocks On Your Door
& Wants Its Money Machine Employed
When This Happens
Pray That You Disappear Into Nothingness
Like That Faceless Ditch Digger You Painted
Who In His Overalls Merged Almost Entirely
Into The Ocre Hole With Purple Contrast
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Ok I Agree This Poem About Painters
Isn’t Normal In Its Construction
I Must Be Honest
It Was Written Out Of Embers
Of A Bad Poem About Public Sector Workers
Weirdly Each Line Morphed Really Well
Like It Was Always Going To Happen That Way
The Bad References About Economics
Have Turned Into Good Ones About Art
Good Art Comes From Bad Economics
I Like That Line
I Am Glad I Transmogrified That Former Poem
That I Called “We Are Hiring”
To The New Title Called
“I Just Used Artistic License Wisely”
Anton Martin Smith Writer 