[lit-ideas] Sunday Twofer
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 11:26:35 -0700
Lying on your back waiting for your last breath to come, what will you be
contemplating?
Why, the ceiling of course,
and how boring ceilings are.
Oh look, a crack, someone call the Discovery Channel.
Art is designed chiefly to appeal to the eyes of those who are still vertical.
When we decorate ceilings, we choose banqueting rooms and churches, places
where gawping is somewhat infra dig.
This is wrong.
Why not put such paintings up where people can enjoy?
Eyes on the real thing, a library of canvases that tour hospital corridors?
Better, surely, than lying there wondering if it's actually light outside,
and who is doing laundry.
In another life I might have concentrated on histories of the French
Resistance,
written light verse,
had some published,
three volumes I think,
gathering dust on someone's shelves:
absolute proof of an existence,
an essence,
which had more fun than Sartre.
David Ritchie,
Portland,
Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------
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