IMPROVISATION# 244
WITH AN ARTIST

With an artist,
poet, philosopher,
and playwrite
who constantly slays
the golden calf
 and then presents
 his present
 with the past
 and laughs at his critics
whom rumor has it
 have no sense of humor
 nor expect everything
to suddenly appear
  out of nowhere;
 forget the media,
see in your literary
  Encyclopedia:
Edward Lear.