Poets and Poems - Ed Baker

MANIPULATING GODDESS


the painting is
what
the paint does

to know
gives into the
it is not so

easy to let go
of the so of it's
pre disposition


that is any
other
test nor meant to

be careful w proposition
s to use anything throw
any phrase remembered

thing is not the color do
ing the dropping of
nor any away demands her

good
nor
bad

but what is done did I say
or mean or do what besides
more is than that a lot of things?

That I thought
that I thought
that I thought

that I was do
ing what was never
done was never said

adequately or done through
voodoo system other wise
religion insists on tech

nique defined and sign my
name useless use
less paint and useless

(useless
what
is

left

is

ancient/

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                   Ed Baker