Museum of Modern Art

Is it the light that long high fluorescence? Or is it the half-light? Why am I so dizzy? Or was it the Sleeping Gypsy mounted just above descending stairs? I'd seen the work in magazines robbed of size and color flair but now in its magnificence Oh why am I so dizzy? It must have been my first full view lifesize view of Guernica in its breadth its height all that black and white stretched along the basement wall Why am I so dizzy mind in ghostly disarray? I finally think it is this feeling opaque Brush Paint Plaster Wire Marble Canvas Transcendental SPLIT! "WE are HERE!"