Tough guy









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"OBVIOUSLY"

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"Obviously",
said the
monkey.







I kind of like this poem, because it's only 4 words but it works on several levels. It's kind of like a haiku. Firstly, the monkey speaks. But then, he says "obviously". Of course! Why would we think that monkeys don't understand. Of course they do, they just can't speak like us, as is the case with all animals. And, I guess the idea is that they're just as advanced as us, or in this case, seemingly above us.

My problem, however, is that it is so small that it seems to get passed right over. No one puts any thought into it. It's just 4 words, and as I've been told, "It's not poetry". OK. There is a second and third part, but to be honest, I felt that if I took it any further it lost that focus of the gleaming little gem. It's like it had to be much more if I added the other parts; and then the first 4 words lost their power because they were just lost in the mix. So maybe it's stronger as it is?

Maybe it will at least make whomever reads it think 'why is this what it is'?














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This is a painting I did after college. It kind of looks like a Polaroid here, and I kind of like that. It's like a quick record of something I did in the past. And since Polaroids are basically extinct now, that's even better.

This is the juvenile detention center that was torn down to make way for the Barnes museum on the parkway. It's just a simple pattern play but I also kind of like the blue paint in the background as a kind of focal point between the washed out white-grey sky and the white-silver of the fence in the front.

LITTLE BOW PEPE

RSVP

I DO NOT MEAN TO OFFEND

I CANNOT ATTEND

YOUR WEDDING




YOU SUPER FUCKING BITCH!!!



LOVE,
YOUR SON
DANIEL

P.S. - TELL GERALD I TOOK HIS SKIS
FOR MY TRIP TO ASPEN. I'LL HAVE THEM
BACK IN THE GARAGE BY MONDAY