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.