“Artist’s Prayer”

The patron often decides what is to be seen. Shameless self promotion is better than none.

Where are all the great patrons

Throw me a hook you fishers of men


That I might be caught and eaten

by the audience beyond the footlights


That my blood be spilled on pages

and canvas in prescribed portion


Afford me the flame of arrogance

to believe that my own hand

in the fire of creation touches wonder

and maybe God himself