Freaky Eyes

art for art’s sake, pity for pity’s sake

poverty is picturesque
take a snapshot
with your 499 dollar
digital camera

snap the ragamuffins
woolly with swollen bellies
skin delicate as parchment
eyes like teardrop rubies

photograph the sleepyhead
junkies treading water
in a pitchblack river of crystal light
wynken, blynken & nod

shoot the happy-go-lucky hobos
quaint beneath abstract concrete
overpass, hunger pangs curled
‘round a flask of spare change

beyond the freeway of smoke
& mirrors, landed estate is the carcass
of a lowrider coupé whimsy picked clean
unctuous vultures standing sentry

hardship is photogenic, ponder that
a priori as you download artist
proofs from your state-of-the art
camera phone, your electronic gadgetry

a passport to pity

© j7 2007