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A FIT SUBJECT FOR MODERN ART

They say that jealousy is green

but so is love

green as a new blade of grass

as sharp as turpentine

and so you cleaned your brush

after he died

and drew the chartreuse line

of his dead cheek

against the porcelain bowl

with trembling hand

because the mix was green

yellow and blue

when they told you he was gone

his head in the toilet

and it was green there, too

so you remembered

so you drew

with brush and paint

thick and thin

and perhaps there were tears

or perhaps only rage

rage is green, too

so you hated

so you loved

the line rounded here

brush caressing where once

you caressed

in a gray green stroke

twisted

tortured

as were you

the man you loved

in undignified death

is made beautiful as

Laocoon

and his sons

making love to the snakes

and such is fit for modern art

to greenly love

the one you hate

for taking himself from you