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Saturday, 22 December 2012
2B Or Not 2B, that is the pencil: poem but not Shakespeare
Here's a short poem I wrote.
2B Or Not 2B
2B or not 2B
That is the pencil
Whether it is
Nobblier in the line to
Scuff the springs and marrows
Of outmoded pictorial representation,
Or to take snaps upon the digital?
To sketch up the dawn of a rosy hue
Or to take lines of sea and rubble
And by Photoshopping them, amend them?
To scumble the surface no more
But open a window on the world.
Depths and planes,
Impasto and light.
What The Fuck!
(written May 2009)
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2 comments:
All I can say is - wish I'd written that!!
With a pencil?
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