Randomerican
This is another random composition pieced together during an art history lesson. The owl was from the print off of a girls shirt. I wanted to add a person without a head because I do too many faces lately. The flag was from the slide show about Jasper Johns and other American Dada. The bomb came up from my prior class discussion and consideration of the Military Industrial Congressional Complex. The mickey mouse was from a Lichtenstein image and the statement was a sort of random selection from the lecture. I would sure enjoy some type of poetic dialogue, if any writers get inspired...
it might go something like this...
Fighting (for) Their Dream
What does it mean to export
ideals to the point of extinction
and still sell the same false
idols with all the fervor
of our grandfathers;
to talk in foreign tongues
of building new worlds that will
somehow always resemble
those they knew so well?
That we are more critical and yet
still more apathetic is due less to
a paralyzing inquisitiveness then to
a frightening subservience
to the same internalizations
that led them to their poisoned
graves.
So now, as the virginal specter
spreads its feathered wings and flys
over the homogenous chameleons
of our hegemenoy, we are here to
bear witness, to catch a fleeting glimpse
with the same view which we thought
we were fighting to supress.
