Simplicity and Complexity
The modern Scandinavians and chairs
By Shakers have their meaning just because
Of life’s complexity. The Cubist squares
And glossed rectangularity give pause
Like Philip Johnson’s house of cleanest glass.
The house by Gropius in Lincoln stunned
The Yanks, yet when those coons came to trespass
On that back porch, their delicate paws shunned
This Less is More philosophy. They washed
And washed and washed away simplicity.
The multifariousness of them squashed
That thought with quick-fingered felicity.
The Bauhaus got it wrong. Imari shapes
Provide us with elaborate escapes.
