Moore and Picabia Lost for Gain

Going Going Gone

By: Charles Giuliano - May 15, 2018

Moore and Picabia Lost for Gain

On the block
First lots after all the agita
Months of protests
Even yesterday
In front of Sothebys
First of May sales
Henry Moore’s “Three Seated Women”
Francis Picabia’s “Force Comique”
Knocked down in Moore ways than one
Hammered into oblivion
Gone forever to the highest bidder
Once sacred treasures of
Seduced and abandoned museum
Rot from head down
Such stinky fish
Moneylenders in temple of art
Vulgarian barbarians
Less was Moore
Puny fraction of its estimate
Fetched $240,000
Such a term yeeeh gads
What does fetch mean
As in fetching spring maiden
All pink and virginal
Like biddies on Moore’s bench
Sold to the highest biddie
Or fetch as in kvetch
Oy Gevalt!
Such a tsuris
To do such a thing
Carol Bosco Baumann
Official flack hack
Mouthing off piece
What should know from better
Makes nice of  mishegoss
Like we know from nothing
While thug and coward
Van the Man behind his Shield
Teflon Don in a cheap suit
Yet again plays mute
Nothing to say on
Such a yukky day
Trashing the past
For his crass new vision
Such oxy from a moron
Van and pug mug McGraw
Have had their say
Funding his Vanity museum
Curse God and die