Art Is Guilty Of Pretension And Amateurity Until Proven Artistic

Eight poems by Dash MacIntyre on a few glittering facets of artistic expression.

Photo by Dan Farrell on Unsplash

How Did You Two Meet?

this artist girl I met asked will you van gogh out with me?

so I told her don’t matisse me

cause there was a renoir going on in my head to ask you the same

so she made me promise not to dali

and kahlo her

and I told her I’d rembrandt

and invite her to munch

and I said I knew a great greco place

with some real pissarro decor

close enough we could hopper there

and she said my interest filled her with klee

and that she’d split the monet

but I said if she could rothko right now

she wouldn’t have to pay basquiat

and she said you’re the duchamp

and the rest is art history.

Kissing In The Movies

kissing in the movies is funny

two professionals made up and surgically enhanced