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French Revolution

David Lohrey

It’s all about the money, not the population.

Let’s revert to the camp fires.
We’ll take up flints and arrows.
We’ll make spears and pierce the heart of this so-called art.
Smash it all; shred it; throw it into the sea.

My friend Keisha McCormick took one look at Mark Rothko’s Void #3
And wanted to vomit. She redoubled her gaze. “I look at this painting
But can’t find my people. I only see you.” Where, she demanded,
Are my African-American brothers and sisters?

This is not part of my people. We’re not at the center;
We’re not even at the side. Why must I study this perverse style?
This is not Mississippi. The sexes may be mingling, but the races are splitting.
In future, Kanye West must be shown at the side of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa.

We are radical practitioners of right thinking, determined to destroy
Western Civilization. We must step back to move forward:
first go the arts and the decorations, then the courts, the laws and institutions.
By the time we’re through, they’ll be nothing left
but vaginal jelly and sawed-off shotguns.

If I can’t see my people, I want to get rid of it as Genghis Khan
And the Taliban dynamited Bamiyan. We’ll destroy the offending statuary.
Why should a museum be a sanctuary? We are determined to enact our purity.
There can be no beauty without justice.

You give us our cut. 13% or we’ll burn the art, set the museums on fire.
We’re kind-hearted, loving and caring, but you give us the sculpture
or we’ll cut your necks.
Oprah goes right up on that Sistine Chapel with Louis Farrakhan and Michael Jackson.
Until that day, that’s nothing but another ugly ceiling.

Guernica? The Prado, what’s that got to do with it?
Why’s that horse’s neck cut in two? Picasso use a guillotine?
He’s as much a sadist as an artist. I’d call that horse a gelding.
How can the symbol of human suffering be depicted by animal mutilation?

It is not just about renaming Yale after Malcolm.
We must demolish the Washington Monument.
We burn with righteous resentment. My parents only make $229,000 a year.
They can afford to send me to college but can’t buy me an Audi.

Put this shit in a vault, send it to the university archives. Who
wants to see Chippewa or Oneida paddling bark canoes?
Subservience to white settlers is offensive. This art depicts a race-based view.
Those offended have declared it harmful. The First Amendment is racist.

This country needs new style of art. How about renaming the Grand Tetons?
Or Michelle and President Obama, both nude, placed in a golden chariot?
They’d look cool next to Lady Liberty. That’s what I’m saying.
Where is the people’s eternal flame?

It’s all about the money, not the population.



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