An Artist's Dwelling, 1985
Eternal bachelor
Orange afro
Lennon glasses
French last name
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Easels litter his living room
Red, orange, blue
Splashes of tropical green
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Photos propped on canvases
Acrylic replicas
Of boats, fishing poles
Bobbing in the sea
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In plants,
Tiny porcelain mice,
Whales
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Heavy coffee table
Cigarette burns
Discarded 'Playboys'
Cribbage board
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Fifteen two, fifteen four, and a pair is six
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In the kitchen,
Pots and pans hang from a rack
Spices stacked
Tomato plants growing out back
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In the basement
Skunky and warm
More plants
Tall, crystal, green
Money-makers
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On the walls,
Paintings
Clowns with puffy rainbow sleeves
Naked women, blonde hair parted
Hawaii
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The bathroom, kingly
Rich red carpet
Stairs leading up to the tub
Old-fashioned telephone
Perched, patient
Ready to ring
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Bedroom
Half-shuttered windows
Thick air, unmade bed
Nude females sketched in lead
Posing in silver frames
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A wild jungle outside
Tangled bushes and vines
Screening in
A private porch
Rocking wooden swing
Gray cat
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A child's dream
This artist's house
Plants concealing a mouse,
A marble
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She gazes up at the colorful clown
Hair red, like its creator
Ruffled sleeves
Striped blue and green
"Self Portrait"
It's entitled
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Coffee table, centerfold
Miss July
Parted thighs
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This artist's god-daughter
Looks to her blood-father
Who's stoned, cross-legged in jeans
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Five years old
She doesn't miss a thing…
"Daddy, she forgot to put on her underpants!!!"