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REJECTION
The Vienna Acadamy of Fine Arts!
What do they know of art?
I've been praised from my earliest days!
Right from the very start!
Everyone said I was clever,
With an architectural flair!
And now this dreadful rejection
Has filled me with despair!
All right! I never studied;
I never worked very much.
But I felt I had a calling
For landscape art and such.
I saw my future as an artist!
I yearned for wealth and fame,
And now I've been rejected!
I feel anger! I feel shame!
They say my talent is modest;
That I can't paint the human form!
And now I feel my anger
Building to a storm!
The Vienna Academy of Fine Arts!
I will even the score!
I'll take my seething anger
And start the next World War!
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Adolf Hitler
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ART IN MINIATURE
Carved from a pencil!
Apple peelings made from wood.
A monument in miniature!
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8 comments:
So we can blame the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for all the miseries of WWII, can we? ;-)
The pencil carving is amazing! How clever some people are.
I enjoyed both of these poems, but the first one in particular.
Difficult task trying to understand the incomprehensible. Interesting exploration.
Bravo. A successful kind of ventriloquism which explains but can never excuse. It must have been very hard to do.
Loved both. Interesting thoughts in the first.
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Chilling, entering into that mind. :) I think both poems work very well - thank you for sharing them with us!
I enjoyed both poems. I liked the irony of "architectural flair" for someone who caused so much destruction. Is that painting really by him? I wouldn't buy it, but it doesn't look half bad to my untrained eyes.
Richard
I suppose Adolph and I have some fundamental differences. I've managed to become used to rejections slips without wanting to blow anything up.
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