recipe for artistic balance part II
john alan douglas
Artistic giants of the world:
sculptors painters editors poets
novelists particularly
film directors:
get down on those unused knees
and wash scour scrub clean
floors ceilings computer
table tops.
Learn humility humanity
balance.
Whitman Emerson Lawrence
Bukowski John Ford
Blake Wordsworth
Henry Miller
all knew this secret ace.
Thus their work reeks
not of effete “art” but
of honest sweat
of common place.
