Friday, February 17, 2023

On the Consumption of Art - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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On the Consumption of Art

 

An artist writes about the consumption of art

As if a painting, a poem, a video

A statue in the lobby of the medical center

Were a tin of meatballs and spaghetti

 

But we do not consume a work of art

Sometimes we almost seem to marry it

Joining art in a sacrament of love

Beyond the velvet ropes of ownership

 

That which can be possessed can be consumed

But neither art nor love is a commodity

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