DUCHAMP :AN EXCHANGE

Paint exchanges phrases
as a poet of future tense
to deposit ready made art
in an uninvited exhibit
from our language's sense
for society does not welcome
Duchamp's ala carte variety
thinking it shadowed solely
for faint fools or a joke
on their delighted part
as a "Nude Descending a Staircase"
once upon a tabled bench of rumor
arranged behind the stage
he defying all fabled ring of rules
in our century of cinematic scenes
or what is labeled a commodity
in stardust charismatic schemes
by denying all old drawing laws
with a new dramatic charter
amid the underground of humanity
of a once a treasury toxic cause
in a barter sold for a modernity
from Marcel's strange
pleasure sounding manifesto
the calls of a hidden artist spoke
as if in a metaphor of dreams
until his wondrous exhibition
awoke to hit us mightier
than it seems anyone's ego
with a departing leisure of
good humorous glow
in the French neighborhood
on the cold walls of museums
only part of the viewing public
nervously understood the show.