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Marcel Duchamp - Stripped Down Cigarette Tobacco draft

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This is 'readymade' art... Questionable whether it's good but interesting to ponder, if not to own. Just the idea that it becomes art is intriguing. Clearly given the right presentation and name, anything is art and it's value high. I didn't particularly use the item description for this poem, just the image. But for those interested it's https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265629

it's how we cast shadows our scattered pieces that stick in your throat or mellow you out on inhalation but tell me, how gently will you hold me - now I'm laid bare? I don't know anymore if I'm held together just by your glance or the fact you deem I have value I'd surely fall apart in anyone else's hands left to my own devices I'd reimagine ruin I can trace my shadow but absent is the life line yet you can tape your name anywhere for value to exist I'm nothing without being your concept none should forget, before you peeled off my surface, I was already-made every fibre and nuance in situ comparisons of class, hold me back for cigarette tobacco lacks much yet still holds the power, regardless of whose hands in is in I just await the fire to return

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