It has been suggested
that the man who painted raging masses
into fiery meatGods
on the wall at l'Escaux was
not a man.

It is suggested
that the man who wrote the book
saying that man was not a man
was not a man, too.

Discuss, with paintings.

A man made the painting Art
or the painting made him Man


     (Either way, a result
     was Adolf Hitler,
     who also ran.)

     If
     it is suggested
     that we have come some real distance,
     then I want proof
     of that absurdity.

Mutter, mutter, mutter,
I'm unconscious
in the gutter,
making funny little drawings
in the mud.
What am I?

©  Copyright, 2000; Malcolm Beckett