Poetry

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The orthodoxy of fine art-

If you want to be a REAL artist:
Don't just tell man ABOUT God ,
but show man that he IS god.

If you want to be a REAL artist:
Don't just tell man that he can transcend higher than our blurry mortal eyes can see.
But show him how pathetic and hopeless his humanity can be.

If you want to be a REAL artist:
Don't just tell of peaceful enticements,
of decisive black and white.
But juxtapose over it the muddled, ugly gray of hedonistic, carnal fright.

If you want to be a REAL artist:
Don't just tell man about how his existence here was beautifuly created.
But show him how his officious existence should be relentlessly berated.

If you want to be a real artist:
Don't just tell man about a great and loving Creator...ALL knowing and ALL seing.
But show him how great love is without such a destructive, hateful being.

Frame it all up with its acolytes
of strict rhythm, and
well avoided rhyme.
Then the accolades of "masterpiece"
will ascend you up to the sublime.

Remember this one thing:
Humanism is GREAT art.
Anything else, is just BAD religion.

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