Bicycle Wheel - Duchamp

secured in place upon painted seat spokes crisscross at its heart neither useful positioned to gain dismissed attention the 'art', of course, is a parody of itself named a 'readymade' a concept - to make you think we all need that as we run without rims upended we are not a concept built all wrong or all right people might scoff as I talk about a seat and a bicycle wheel spend time observing it and reflecting I need to still my heart so direct my focus considering spaces between spokes over 100 years ago this photo, absent of background who made that decision that the backdrop isn't part of the art? dirt on the legs shows there was a before or a carefully crafted impression of one through squinted eyes is any frame adequate to make a whole? in on the joke or part of it I don't know, but it's thinking fodder as long as Monsieur Duchamp never tried to sell it to me then I'll allow him head space rent-free as I compare supports to ladders reassemble the vision recognise the wheel atop won't steady my climb that seat will be part of a set prior to that it was raw wood a tree a seed a future event there are so many points to become something I've less to say now those parts don't long for what might have been nor recognise they've come a long way this is just a moment part of a very long time we won't crash and burn if forced to be still whilst atom by atom becoming something else all those shed pieces disappear and we are what is left