Apparently he had a warm soft spot in his heart for black folk

he was a sucker when they touched him up on the street for spare change or a couple

bucks

          “If he could spare it.”

unlike the young white man who earlier  garrulously touched him up for food money

--   Is that your dog

--   Yah  Hes mine  His name . . .

he held up his hand quickly to hush him  he didnt want to hear the dogs name  or his

--   Then dont ask me for money  Eat the dog

to this day he hadnt met or seen a black woman or man panhandling who kept 

company with a dog

he didnt ask

he assumed they either recognised that feeding themselves was hard enough

or they already ate theirs

1733,  John Lennon’s Moanday,  8  12. 14  

“ . . . the tragedy of man’s destiny  --   forever caught between birth and death  --  aware

of the strange disparity between the great space of the imagination

and the material human fate . . .

Rothko was aware his means fell short of his vision . . . he exclaimed during 

optimistic moments: 

                                ‘They are not paintings.’ ” *

Optimistic moments naturally balance Pessimistic ones

                                                                                                          she readily admitted

her pessimism

                         and with a snaggletoothed turn in her mouth  curling her lips   discretely

maybe cruelly 

                         she said pessimythic  deliberately upping the ante
  

 

he loved how it tilted out from her lips  

                                                                 birthed in her mouth

1520,  John Lennon’s Moanday,  8  12. 14

Dore Ashton quote from Mark Rothko: Works On Paper *

Camel toes in camouflage caps

two of things that tweaked him

and one atop the other 

                                     Christ!

theyre unnecessary

                                 and he didnt wanna hear   no dont tell him   theyre inobvious

--  stand before a dressing mirror before heading out into the WHOLE WIDE WORLD  --

he was buggered 

 

                              utterly buggered    that a woman would intentionally wear them

and make  quite  the knockout fashion statement

                                                                                        camel toes in camouflage caps

                                                                                                    Whasdat say ?

1451,  John Lennon’s Moanday, 8  12. 14