"NEVER LOOK AWAY'

 

Sold!....to the Ghost of Andy Warhol....for $24,000,000......a bargain at $3.99.......Come to 'The Gallery'....gaze upon the Desperation of Commercialism.......make pithy, smart, fashionably swarthy comments, while disguised as a Susan Sontag 'look-a-like'.....have another foie gras hors-d’oeuvres, dropping beluga caviar on the toes of your $1700 'basketball' shoes.......chat with Park Ave. hookers, on the arms of the Fortune "500"......This signifies 'Arrival' and permissions to establish, for the Hoi, in vintage Armani, the State of 'The Art".....Mr. Banksy, are you ready for your 'closeup' with Lady? Yes...I think I can 'squeeze' you into this 'shot', Melania.....turn around, so we can 'get' your overcoat, please......"How Big is that diamond, Jennifer?....and 'who' are you wearing?"...https://youtu.be/Bj2IVzYG2Lw No one but you will ever know!.......and, to think....shutter......I painted over that 'Big Eyes' painting that I bought from Berenice @ P'tree Quality Salvage, 50 years ago......then burned my painting in an oil barrel, thus, killing 'two birds with one match'......Now, to return to an abandoned project: lining an empty Roi-Tan Cigar box with a 'cut-up' Dali Painting that I got at a garage sale, for $125......I sold the "Joseph Albers' to Hal Chamberlain, in 1976, for a hundred bucks....to buy a new gas filter and 'plugs' for my Wankle Car.....I'm so excited that 'I can't breathe!'.....Breath deep.....it won't last, you know......Now, exhale....relax.....The Box is empty, just as Salvadore would 'have it'.....Fill it with loose change....or old stamps, rubber bands, Prism pencils or paper clips; then, stack it in a closet.....under some old Indian Blankets, hat boxes or canvas luggage.......When it ends up on a folding Samsonite vinyl-top, enamelled table, tagged "$2".....it will be only an instigator of another's new memories.... 

I've been cutting out a hundred or so of the thousands of trumpet vine seed pods.......industriously 'tended' by tiny black ants.....and....am wondering....'they resemble "Pea Pods"......If only they were 'safe to cook and eat'....there'd be a 'green bean feast' on the horizon.......I'd better check out "DINING ON WILD EDIBLES", perhaps....before cooking them...they may be poisonous, since I've not seen other animals eating them.......

 after just touching some oozing goo dripping from a trumpet vine's 'Pod'...my fingers began to turn pink and a rash followed....Well, so much for 'dining on wild plants'....I'll 'stick' to green beans and pea pods, I think.....a hundred beautiful Pods are now in the refuse bags for 'pickup' next week......Although...I did consider drying the pods to a brown, woody state....and using them for 'firewood' to heat my home......rather than 'waste' them.......Nature Abhors 'WASTE', you know.....and, after all, I did not 'cut the grass' a single time this year, allowing the Wilderness Yard to decay and enrich the Soil......I'm considering a 'Composting Box' for all the billions of leaves that will soon blanket the Property, rather than line the street with paper bags, full of potentially good soil, in the making, to enrich the hard, red clay that is in Atlanta's soil......the ants and earthworms will have a delicious Winter, I hope.....as they aerate the yard....so the feathery trumpet vines can 'take over'........Hmmm....I'm wondering if the local deer dine on those pods.....and, perhaps, the kudzu and poison ivy......one creature's poison may be another's 'fine dining'.......