Piss Christ (1987)

     Piss Christ (1987)

  

You know those labels in museums by

The items on display and in the art

Exhibits.  Do you think they’re being sly

Sometimes?  The curators seem to impart

The barest minimum.  They’re virgins who

Give off the palest pheromones.  You can’t

Smell perspiration of the coyest blue

And that’s the point.  You’re left to feel aslant

Too all the culture that’s withheld.  That’s best.

These nuns who run exhibits, galleries,

And blockbuster civilized shows arrest

Our minds with stingy calories.

..If otherwise, they might teach something and

….We’d see the shallow intellectual sand.