This artist, Guillermo Vargas (Costa Rica), tied up a dog and let it die, in a museum. This is my protest poem, an ode to Art.
And watch me die
For your pleasure
A dog on a lead
A mongrel, a stray
This isn't TV
This is a life
This isn't Art
This is a death
No water
No food
The artist is chained up
Let's watch him die
And drink wine
And eat hors d'oeuvres
At the exhibition
Let's watch him die
A slow death
No water
No food
Won't anyone help?
So inhumane
This treatment
An artist
Starving for attention.
April 3, 2008
© 2008 Anne Westlund
Poetry by Anne Westlund
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Written on 2008-04-04 at 08:55
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Guillermo Vargas
Tie me upAnd watch me die
For your pleasure
A dog on a lead
A mongrel, a stray
This isn't TV
This is a life
This isn't Art
This is a death
No water
No food
The artist is chained up
Let's watch him die
And drink wine
And eat hors d'oeuvres
At the exhibition
Let's watch him die
A slow death
No water
No food
Won't anyone help?
So inhumane
This treatment
An artist
Starving for attention.
April 3, 2008
© 2008 Anne Westlund
Poetry by Anne Westlund
Read 626 times
Written on 2008-04-04 at 08:55
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