IMPROVISATION #49
DUBUFFET 1901-1985

Your five star portraits
in oil paints
of your poet friends
Michaux, Ponge, Matisse,
and Jean Paulhan,
who was also literary critic
waiting on his library bench
who translated the poetry
of Madagascar into French
draws on ordinary life
or low art in our culture
took his risk and chance
in a fascist time
of crime and insanity
was in the Resistance,
picked up new skill
traveled to Brazil and Italy
juxtaposing thick oils
soiled with passing sand
passing cement,straw
sticks,pebbles and gravel
and glass in hand
in his art show
as in parts of an antipasto
for his raw art.