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10-PICASSO’S CUP

PICASSO'S CUP

it is everything we once believed, rigid as the board it sits upon, so sure of its opinion, like an art critic peering thru a keyhole on behalf of the petit bourgeoisie he represents, pursing his thin blue lips, about to explain exactly what it is that he sees

   picasso’s

white cup

solid as bridge

   stone

   flat as a

dutchman’s ass

& twice as

   smug

this is paris at the height of the french empire

draped by a large green banana,

not yet ripe, lying languid as all africa in the

terrible dusk of montparnasse

George Wallace

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