Why Paint With Paint

Why Paint with Paint

Artist John Knuth
To tell you the truth
Paints with a broad swath of color
His reds are bright reds
His blues are bright blues
But his greens and his browns are much duller

For the truth of the matter
He paints with fly splatter
Instead of the usual paint
He raises each fly
(He’s a pretty sick guy)
And a typical artist he ain’t

He feeds his flys sweets
Water color mixed treats
Then he coaxes the flys to throw up
He then captures that waste
Makes it into a paste
And that’s how his colors show up

He says once you had tried
Fly barf, you’d decide
To forfeit all other subtext
So he paints from the start
What he claims is fly art
It really is not that complex

Uncle Mike
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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September 3, 2013 at 3:30 PM
oh uncle mike, i miss your poems when i don't see them here! this one is so funny and so cleverly rhymed i'll be smiling for a while. thanks!
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