Marcel Duchamp
(French Dada artist, 1887 - 1968)
Marcel Duchamp is most celebrated
for a woman rushing down a stairwell naked,
a painting critics mocked from the start
as degenerate French modern art.
Wives sighed relief she’s less than revealing
so invited their husbands for a viewing.
Duchamp painted her stripped of any garb
apropos to the art of the time – avant garde –
a style abstracted from reality
and untouched by prurient vulgarity
devoid of any libidinous knowledge,
unless her many overlapping legs.
I suspect her lover’s knock she heard
had her rushing hurriedly and blurred.
Who he might have been is still unknown –
some think Duchamp, discreetly not shown.
Categories:
duchamp, art, humor,
Form: Light Verse
a
nihilistic
hobby horse
in a sense
of outrage
in
hysterical
fragments
of time
of
multiple
manifestations
in the incoherent
moving
in
a condensed
cadence of rhythmic
random harmony
transfixed
in
a lateral
displacement
embodied
in
still
life
struggling
to
move
guile
Categories:
duchamp, art,
Form: Didactic
we’re in France
fantasy France
good ball
I like France
hand wobble
your the champ
I’m your Caddy
good ball
It’s DuChamp
Cause we’re in France
Call me Caddy DuChamp…..
Categories:
duchamp, boxing day ,
Form: Free verse
fragments
of time
multiple
manifestations
moving
a condensed
cadence of rhythmic
harmony
transfixed
a lateral
displacement
embodied
in
still
life
struggling
to
move
Categories:
duchamp, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
How to take a leak
Marcel felt quite an urge when he set out to purge understanding of how to when
we view misconceptions of who is taking the piss now never thereafter and then
A fountain trickling urinal porcelain pissoir on display impressed me no doubt in
treacherous confusion of images since relief in museums constitutes phallic sin
When streams of revisionist consciousness meet with surreal ‘truth’ of ablutions
seeming paradoxes cleanse body and mind in contextual and continent solutions
A fragmented human condition does not improve with rigid caged in perceptions
in which mindless dogma clearly resists benefits of antiauthoritarian disinfection
Are glass ceilings real are vessels of thought and flush toilets congested or empty
do ivory towers reveal liberation and freedom achieve status of fully cognoscenti
Nothing what it seems is Duchamp's message in a showcase of lavatorial pride
colonising minds need disclosure critique confrontation urinating against the tide
When cognition feeling and action with knowledge have reached full critical vision
I reach for a fountain pen so whether this is a poem or not remains your decision
16th May 2017
Categories:
duchamp, art,
Form: Couplet
porcelain has a sensation -
But that doormat is septic!
Categories:
duchamp, art, kids, hilarious, imagination,
Form: Concrete