Artist pictures non-Artist: himself with a block. Himself in an invisible medium. --One is too proud, one is too humble.; Non-Artist pictures Artist--as nothing? as how Artists used to picture Artist??--no: himself without a job. Or, himself but that can do every job. (how many artists would swallow that? as many as the former?)

Entertainment in which the quasi-militaristic heroes have such a good time doing everything that soldiers do--except get killed.

'It is ironical that very nearly everyone glorifies Rome and admires her as the civilizer of the human race, while at the same time very nearly everyone is filled with horror by the thought that a similar phenomenon [Hitler] might appear in our day.' --Simone Weil (1939)

   "Paint Evil

Cat don't like it, says
Nooo, Wrooong, 's
Evil: EVIL ! take--!
but i bend & find out &
you're just sore

back to my canvas, i
have ever been painting evil
and i painted it with love
and i ended painting love
till the pain went away...

now there is no evil
but what i paint, and i paint for love.
i understand;
you can't say Pain--
you either lie or let the paint paint Evil.

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Possessiveness is like a crack running down the middle of your glasses--the line is always there, and everything is on one side of it or the other.

   "WITHNESS [Poem Ending in a Snap of the Fingers]

this with:
 hid not
  lost,
nearest,
 look in the grass for it
  greengold and deep shadowed
 only,
but what you want to
 put palm around,
  by a late or early sun, is
   palm's palm
  already you
 with.
this.
--!

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