10,576. I'LL CALL IT ART

I'LL CALL IT ART

The tangential frequencies are all of what I

see, thank you. And. I'll Call. It. Art. 

Thank you just the same  -  for stepping

back a few feet to see better; for not

commenting on an errant line; for keeping

quiet even if your stomach grumbles.

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Yes, there are two other rooms of this,

and a history behind it all too. Brooklyn

Museum this isn't, but then again neither

is it Elmira's 'Arnot Art Museum.' Boy, 

did I have trouble with that one, while 

living there. They'd never show my

work, unless it was for some short,

cottage-cheese event. Always a cause.

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Their stupid name too  -  are these things

art or not? Are not Art, Museum. Who

thought that up? Well, anyway, what

do you gravitate too? Floral art or the

heavy conceptual stuff : where they tell

you what's there even though nothing is and

you need to imagine it first, and then they

paint the wall some bad shade of teal

and throw a bullet-proof sackcloth at it

that sticks onto velcro-held patterns.

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Believe me, if you give them the right

wine and cheese, they'll applaud by the 

end of the night  -  even with a strolling

violin trio with a stand-up bass thrown in.