Removed from the Sinister (Second from the Left)

Removed from the Sinister

   (Second from the Left)

……

Pastel and false in various ways,  the pic
Is truer than its maker meant.   He thought
To make us perfect, 1950s slick.
Despite this sophistry, the vision caught

Tells truer truths than visual ones.   Pastels

Are facts as much as undiluted hues,

And these four boys have yet to meet the swells

Atlantic storms could heave at them.  The blues

Are grayed out carefully, but then what’s sad

Had not been visited upon us yet,

So why should sorrows be allowed to add

Their full intensity, their adult threat?

  That lovely Donald (cancer of the brain)

    Is not infected here with later stain.

by phillipw | Dec 25, 2019 | WH | 0 comments