isn’t it funny that a man uses the intimacy and privacy

of a woman as his muse as a way to show his talent

we read and report on at 9:30 on a Tuesday morning

on a powerpoint of white dress and backdrop and

there she is standing on masculinity

cloaked as a howling head of a fur rug facing

our wish we hadn’t gotten out of bed today to study

traditional techniques that speak on sexuality

so thank you for illustrating women in this way

better than manet you’re the man put my bed

head on display now lets set our gaze

to the 19^th century historian who believed venus

of urbino was a prostitute as well

as olympia’s manet must have heard through

the rumor mill and i want a painting of a woman

covered in plastic wrap with a sign in her lap

come and get it boys begging to be

recycled and that is not a cat it’s sex

a black accessory to a naughty daring girl

WOMAN trapped in that cute little

domestic sphere where critics view

her body as a link to a diseased cadaver

next to that damn black cat running through caricatures

meaning that she is realism

attracting attention to artistic paris

where she is hung on that grand white wall for

patrons and wanna be saints to mock her

maker in the universal exhibition why don’t you just

take that bitch to the funhouse museum

where he says he is a painter  but oh we know

of himself the greats and the female nude

talk dirty to me hierarchy

of genres he’s coming for you

are a woman a beauty a piece of art

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