billie holiday (april 7, 1915 - 1959)...

i thought...

I have written a thousand haiku
and got tired.

I thought.

if you're a beat poet...

If you're a beat poet ragged hair is good
Earring
And beard
Four Roses whiskey manischewitz and a good 99 cent merlot
Camels
And
Lucky Strikes
And beer of course
Funny looking cigarettes whoosh !
Craggly demeanors horn rimmed glasses button-down shirts
Stripes
On the shirts and on the road
A compendium
Of wide brimmed hats and six shooters
Big apples Mexico sunrises

Hell !
Fix the infrastructure will ya ?

If you're a beat poet

one brush...

That coffee!
A handful of acrylics
Peach rouge mauve chartreuse
The color of faces
Hands
A pout
A brush
Canvas and paper

One brush!

Rembrandt the greatest self-portrait painter of all time

I like Van Gogh though

in studio c...

Thinking about
Where it would be
Nice to be
Under a moon
Lemon in the sea

Under a sunset
Purple and pink

Singing with the bards sailors and bones

In Studio C

in the coffee morning...

Still, very still
In the coffee morning
Except

A piano playing Monk
Thelonious Monk

Donna Lee
Charlie Parker
And
Take 5

A morning of still, very still
In the coffee morning

just words to make a small painting...

Brushes of words
On
Light
Light gold paper
Sundance
And Katharine Ross
In
Sepia.