Me for You

 Me for You

Hold me
As if we were now you,
Completed.
Trust me
As if I were the mirror
In which you saw yourself
As the you you dreamed.
Believe in me
As if I could fill any gap
To make you whole.
Ask me anything
As if the question were answered
Before it left your lips.
Say yes to us
As if we were and could never be
Any less than that.

100 Lives

 

From: 100 Lives (Condensed)
Her parents were both alcoholics. She had both the attitude and the body for tattoos, and, believe me, she had many. The visible ones were astonishing. The hidden ones were a play ground for the imagination. Even as her flesh aged and sagged, her tattoos still drew great admiration. Men were repulsed and attracted by her, often both at the same time. Though many men loved her, she never married. When she died, it was the first nude full-body, open-casket viewing anyone had ever attended.

HCA #33

 Holy Church of Art

Sermonette #33

Brothers and sisters in Art,
Make art for yourself first.
To test your resolve.
To see if you’re all in.
Too see if you’ve found beauty.
To see if it shakes the world, even a little.
To see if it’s honest.
Then it will be ready to take on the world.

Believe

 Do You Believe This?

Do you believe this?
Life ends, love endures.
Then take armfuls of love from its universe
And scatter it freely like seed.

Do you believe this?
Love’s arrow is free
To choose any target.
Then let its drugged tip enter deep
And work its chemistry.

Do you believe this?
Love is work
Rewarded with more love.
Then plant it.
Pull the weeds.
.
Do you believe this?
Love can speak
In sacred voices.
Listen, then
Love the world with vengeance.

HCA #32

 

100 Lives

 From: 100 LIves (condensed)

The age 7 day: He fell off his bike, got kissed by a girl, read a bedtime story to his little sister. The age 11 day: Had a Belgian waffle for breakfast, failed his math test and broke his collarbone in a fall from the neighbor’s tree. The age 17 day: He shaved off his beard, finished Huckleberry Finn and lost his virginity. The age 27 day: He woke up drunk, was late for his own wedding and didn’t get the blow job he expected. The age 32 day: He watched his son be born, looked at his wife as he had never done before and even thought he could come to love his mother-in-law. The age 51 day: At breakfast he confided something to his wife that he thought he never could, spent an ordinary day at work and got a call saying that his son had died in a DUI. The age 73 day: Finished a book on Genghis Khan, decided not to go to dialysis and died in his favorite easy chair.
63.

HCA #31

 Holy Church of Art

Sermonette #31

Brothers and sisters in art,
Art is distressed about the loss of its young people.
For most of them, once their drawings are taken off the refrigerator, their art life is over.
They are not taught drawing as an active form of disciplined seeing and visual investigation.
They are not taught the principles of art as a language.
In a visual world, they are not taught to interpret the messages of advertising, marketing and visual design.
They remain visually illiterate.