"The version of 'The Scream' sold Wednesday was executed in 1895 and
is the only one not held by Norwegian museums. It also features a poem
inscribed by Munch in which he explains his inspiration for the work,
which depicts 'the great scream in nature.'"
one hundred nineteen point nine million dollars
that's how much this painting was sold for at the auction block today
how many zeroes
are there in that amount?
how many seedlings
to replenish a forest
with that amount?
with that amount?
how many screaming protestors
can't be silenced
by zealous billionaires
out to bury
collective memories with
multi-level piles of concrete?
look how those
white-gloved men
handle the work
as if it is
a fragile infant
as if the slightest
false move will cause
precious pigments
to crumble
to crumble
the painter
once took a walk
in the forest &
heard nature scream
its protest
at what the world
was turning out to be
he went home
to capture
that sound
in waves upon
tsunami waves
of violent colors
how they must have
echoed the violence
inside him
the kind that
protests when
moral guardians
say, "i'm disappointed
with you. you would've
made a skilled engineer.
an honorable trade
that one is.
that one is.
stop this foolishness
of painting."
pweh!
if munch could outrace
his madness
his addictions
the nazis
who thought of him
& his works
as depraved
if he could
continue to paint away
recover his balance
& late in life
be respectable
be provident father
& not die van gogh's
pauper's death
oh for god's sake
pweh!
give the monied set
the screaming
effing scream
the forest will
outlive the self-proclaimed
zealots of progress
even munch in his
twilight years
must've known that
~ Babeth Lolarga
May 3, 2011
2:44 p.m.
the forest will
outlive the self-proclaimed
zealots of progress
even munch in his
twilight years
must've known that
~ Babeth Lolarga
May 3, 2011
2:44 p.m.
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