Dissent

Unearthing Ruins

By: Charles Giuliano - May 17, 2016

Dissent

Rules
Meant to be broken
Have no respect
Rude and outrageous
Clever assassin
Artist as Oedipus
Killing ancestors
Lost civilizations
Wife mother
As muse
Sister daughter
Creative rage
Blind exile
Cost of creation
Phoenix
From ashes
New creations
Not making sense
Of process
No time for
Critical analysis
Just do the work
Punks with three chords
Banging and crashing
Making music
Of their generation
Not following rules
Taking heat
Trashed and scorned
Flame out failure
Road less traveled
Facing enemy
Of self
Red badge of courage
Bloodied in art wars
Corpses piled up
Field of combat
Stench of dead art
Winners as losers
Survivors perhaps
Live to tell the tale
Call me Ishmael
Get medals
Retire with glory
Nurse their wounds
True heroes
Ultimate sacrifice
Not fighting
Another day
Perhaps unearthed
Eons later
No longer matters
Sifting ashes
Panning for gold
Dust to dust
Bomb museums
Death to academies
Destroy temples
Knock pricks
Off Herms
Arrogant Alcibiades
Violate the gods
No tolerance for
Nice art
Screw the
Bourgeois