- Keith Banner
Estate
just let me drive into
this little stupid
textbook heaven where
everything is immortal
and not, burnished into its own little myth
xrayed outside of itself
dolled up
with chemicals and
paint, a side glance into
what doesn't matter
it suddenly matters
then it goes, it bleeds away
you know
the history but then you don't
amnesia is just as easy
deny what you see and then
it becomes the only thing you can
see
the shaky semblence of
abstract notions like
pledges and contracts and
leases
close your eyes
rub your eyelids
flashes of colors like
one of those xmas
tree color wheels
like a rainbow flag
in 1976
you dream of cities
and sleep inside
the dreams
of beautiful cows
america is a
stop sign
having an epileptic seizure
that's
about
it
("Estate," Robert Rauschenberg,1963, oil and silkscreen ink on canvas)
