Sigmar Polke, Supermarkets!, 1976 What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families …
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Store in the Rain, 1927 Now that I’ve wasted five years in Manhattan life decaying talent a blank talking disconnected patient and mental sliderule and number machine on a desk autographed triplicate synopis and taxes obedient prompt poorly paid stayed on the market youth of my twenties fainted in offices wept on …
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural …
James Ensor, The deadly sins dominated by Death, 1904 Hey Father Death, I’m flying home Hey poor man, you’re all alone Hey old daddy, I know where I’m going Father Death, Don’t cry any more Mama’s there, underneath the floor Brother Death, please mind the store Old Aunty Death Don’t hide your bones Old Uncle …
Charles Angrand, The western railway at its exit from Paris, 1886 Railroad yard in San Jose I wandered desolate in front of a tank factory and sat on a bench near the switchman’s shack. A flower lay on the hay on the asphalt highway – the dread hay flower I thought – It had a …
Jeremy Mann, Manhattan Nights, 2013 It is the moon that disappears It is the stars that hide not I It’s the City that vanishes, I stay with my forgotten shoes, my invisible stocking It is the call of a bell. E’ la luna che scompare sono le stelle che si nascondono, non io. E’ la …
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