Blue As Smoke White As Bone

Sam
is cloud
love
lying down on flower field
change into
white elephant
white tiger
white horse
white fish
white butterfly

he
stand up like gorilla
lie down like seal
sit down like frog

catch ladybug
throw into canvas
creeping up and down on edge
chrysanthemum hiding corner
clam naked spinning round and round
butterflies in spring shower
hovering giggling

Renoir falls into painting
Goya whistles
Matisse gives a washing machine
Van Gogh brings a hammer
he breaks sunset into two worlds
Gauguin brings two blue balls
Toulouse-Lautrec comes with three black girl friends
Cezanne brings four apples
he throws all on canvas
Picasso with five roses hide inside red in red
Monet brings six waterlilies forgets water
Bonnard sneak in with seven bottles perfume
Modigliani comes singing with eight butterflies
Poussin fly in nine kisses

Tufu say blue as smoke white as bone
Rubens say woman ass is round
Botticelli say woman ass is pink
Munch say pink is orange
Seurat say orange is love

Van Eyck cooking oil paint in kitchen
orange more yellow
violet more red
white more blue

Strauss sticks out tongue

Da Vinci saw cloud
close look find snow
he ask Michelangelo
Michelangelo saw blue eye
second look
moon

all afraid
ask Giotto
Giotto also saw cloud

look again find falling leaves
look again moby dick
look again blue balls
look again bright ring
look again red bamboo
look again violet sword
look again green penis
look again yellow smoke
look again ultramarine snail
look again orange tits

Sam

cloud

wet

soft

float around earth

look
for a fat mama

she vagina
big enough
to put sun

hot enough
to warm Sam

(to Sam Francis from Ting. Autumn 1972)
Walasse Ting