Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Above the Fountain

It’s a sculpture
               one of thousands
                              most now melted down
He got ripped off
               is all he remembers
                              and the breasts a few mls thicker
A thousand pass in front each day
               few pay some respect
                              avert their gaze
Fewer mutter things, about Venus
               or is it Artemis?
                              or the clean lines of de stijle
(But that is only to impress
               those already bullied
                              by the aforementioned size of breast)

Yet something in it stirs
               some Mona Lisa smile
                              as if the real is there to taunt
For it symbolizes, despite its nakedness, some
               refuse of immortality
                              some glimpse of latent beauty
Something that exists so we don’t have to
             that we’re supposed to feel but not
                              allowed, despite it all, to see