gulfstreamlitmag posted: " by AC Dobell Mound of Butter by Antoine Vollon. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art. I want to steal them all,or own the rights to themlike an art collector. Pluck them one by oneoff the screens in Times Square,watch them disappearfrom the sides"
Mound of Butter by Antoine Vollon. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art.
I want to steal them all, or own the rights to them like an art collector.
Pluck them one by one off the screens in Times Square, watch them disappear from the sides of highways.
I will spare only "Farm Fresh Eggs" & the "Free Firewood" signs because I am feeling generous.
I will leave up empty billboards & screens the way we have been left caracasses— bleached coral & the hollowed bodies of addicts that make up urban centers.
Because I am feeling generous I will preserve their history, fold their flags into boxes & donate them to public archives. I imagine one day we could gawk at how backwards it all was.
In Shanghai, there's a collection of posters from the Cultural Revolution displayed in some apartment basement. It is inconspicuous, but it is there for those curious enough to imagine a world where people were so constantly exposed to propaganda smiles.
It has given me an idea for how to display our once inescapable logos, but I will not tell you which ones because I have plucked them too from this poem & I will not be allowing photos.
AC Dobell is a Filipina-American poet and visual artist. She studied as a mentee of the Madwomen in the Attic writing program at Carlow University. Her work has been published in Hawaii Pacific Review, Voices from the Attic, Gasher, Eunoia, Rising Phoenix, and Mercado Vicente. She is a director at Mused, a collaborative exhibition for artists of varying mediums.
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