FOR ANOTHER VAN GOGH

In today's soap opera world

gossips whisper to us

in a know nothing alley

as a shivering man

below the rose's dooryard

may be a poet,composer,
scientist in his laboratory
or artist in his gallery

to bring forth
a new avant-garde dimension
or a quality of life invention
he may be another Van Gogh

who has lost one ear

but the crowd ignores
that he exists
prefers to swim the T.V. channels

for yet another show.