Art for Farts’ Sake

The monstrous lack of any sense in art

Was followed by the monstrous lack of sense

In thinking and philosophy .  The part

Of Derrida and Deconstruction’s dense

Offensive springs to mind.  A crazed theory

Of this and that philosopher in turn

Produced these dead end thoughts, mostly dreary.

The twentieth century wanted to burn

Up everything before syllogisms

Of its own academic brains.  What went

Before surrendered to hypnotisms

Like Marx and Freud and Jung.  New Critics bent

The way that academe had dealt with books.

The artists led to piracy by crooks.

by phillipw | Mar 6, 2021 | DE, FR, JA, JU, LI, MA, NE, PS | 2 comments