Category: art history

  • Fortuna For Now

    Fortuna For Now

    I ditched Juliet. I’m in love with Luna. I’ve paid off my debts and For now it’s Fortuna. But this is not a permanent state— It’s just a little date. My soul mate’s trapped in briars, so I  Have to keep climbing higher.

  • Atonement

    Atonement

    At-one-ment.

  • A Particularly Prolific Day for Poetry

    A Particularly Prolific Day for Poetry

    Genesis by Benjamin Stone Gene is my genesis. He is the one That must heal for me to win The battle that’s won. But like I just said,  It’s over already. I guess I’ll just sleep And hang out with Freddie. 

  • Who?

    Who?

    Who’s going to tell me happy birthday?—Be glad I was born?Who’s going to bring me lots of flowers?“You know I will, my Son.”

  • Ha!

    Ha!

    Is that all you’ve got? I’ve endured worse. I will excel  Despite your damn curse. But you know that I love you. I can’t wait for Christmas. Presents for Easter. I guess that’s your business.

  • The Damned and Wasted

    The Damned and Wasted

    by Benjamin Stone The damned and wasted have Only waste to give. They don’t have tools to build, So they don’t know how to live. They don’t read shit; therefore, Their shitty lives of sin Are projected onto you, And they think they have to win.

  • Hello, It’s Me in Jello…

    Hello, It’s Me in Jello…

    I tried to say “Hello,”

  • The Road to Joy

    by Benjamin Stone The road to joy Is littered with bodies. Just leave them in your wake. Make someone else clean Up that shit. They are the ones making mistakes.

  • Van Gogh’s Peasants

    I wonder why people miss that many of the French “peasants” van Gogh painted were melanated people. It’s never discussed at all. Go to France now. 4% of the entire population is melanated people. What happened between 1885 and today? Also in looking at some of van Gogh’s other works featuring ‘peasants’ with melanated features,…

  • Vincent

  • False Narratives around Van Gogh

    This is a rather good portrait that you are being told to believe the mother of the subject used to patch a chicken coop. A gift like this discarded? No, that doesn’t happen. Because people who receive gifts like this know something about the artist that the men crafting the narrative do not. And for…

  • Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

  • Had Never Seen This Greeting Card Before

  • Our Lord, The Sun

    I told my dad the statue of Liberty is Helios, or Apollo, or some other Sun god Motif. It was modeled on The Collosus of Rhoads. Also, a Sun god. How do I know it’s a Sun god? I draw Sun gods. I pray to the Son on Sunday.

  • Every Step is Perfect

    Every step is perfect. Every move divine. Yes, even that one. Relax. Everything is fine. Just try not to worry because That’s when things get dark. If you trust that things will work out, They will. God provides an ark.