Why aren't you sitting
at a little card
table at the craft fair
having sunk a
lot of your money
and a
lot of your time
into making
those things and now
where's your audience
how big does it get
if no one
saw it
heard it
tasted it
fingered it lightly
before passing on
did you make it
did it happen
was it real
where is your fine line
between hobby, crafting, and
serious art
how big did you want
your audience to be
open, headline
second prize
in a kind of big city
with an important art scene
that no one
150 miles away
even knows exists
how many clippings
did you save and how many
times in print
did it thrill you
to see
your own name
liar
is it really about
the thing that you made
or is it just an excuse
to connect
with your own
hand-selected jury
the people you'd
like to please
and have love you
anyway
group love
how best to get it
is this your attempt? I
once made
a vase for
my mommy too is this
your identity to elevate past
the neither good
nor bad
empirical truth
of the grocery store and the grass and
the bulbs for spring is it
torture sometimes or just
really fun is it about
you
or is it about
it
I was just wondering because
it turns out there's
a bit of free time
manning my table
at the
craft fair today.
3 comments:
Re: the last three. Listen carefully:
You suck for keeping these locked away for only your select and safe group of friends and family to read.
One to mock. One to appreciate. One to become so fucking green with envy that he wants the electric grid to permanently seize so that nobody ever has the chance to stumble across and appreciate and mock and envy because they are so much better than anything he's ever done or ever could do.
You, at least, could let your less talented friends like me re-publish on a site where somebody may stumble across. You could adopt a pen name.
Or not. Your work's great.
Daaaaaaamn.
Please don't feel rushed though. Just let me know when you're ready to take a walk outside.
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