comparitive virtues

[sweetwater]

the painter who lives within all of these uncertainties
predicts the outcome during the creation of their art
as a mural unto a night sky
or an eye for another canvas

to produce the prodigious in the prolific
only in comparison to other artists of glory and folly
the canvas or the wall becomes the master

so the questionable genius is a comparitive virtue
and a relative realization of one's own greatness
and a humbling exercise into the forgeries
of the present

and while celebrating the fake and inept
the painter calcifies the wall of plaster
into a mural shaping so designed
as to take away the very last breath
of every desire
and the last remaining pieces of cloth
used to sponge the frame
in a play on words
and a glass plated beginning