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And the last of these art
poems, painting poems,

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is called Jan Bruegel's Bouquet.

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And somebody asked
me to read this.

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And I'm so glad, because it's
sort of a melodramatic poem

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to read, and you like to
be able to offer the excuse

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that somebody asked
you to read it, so.

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Shoe polish black
background, and his flowers

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strike the hour of
full bloom, extinction

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begins in the next shadow.

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The open tulips show
their black rods

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and the corn meal of their
stamens, garden iris,

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grained papers too
watery to write on,

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and peonies the
color of sliced ham.

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An open fan of white breath
accrue details of gypsophilia,

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the green stems have been
painted into disappearance.

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They have entered the
shining black wall.

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He has made primary
color a memory.

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Tulip, iris, the
descriptions of red and blue

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for a blind man
touching his own face.

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The petals curl.

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They are limp.

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Bent away from resilience
and pumped blood.

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Two insects dangle from their
own silk, two marionettes

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of leftover sex
touching the completely

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black petal dead center
in his composition,

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the entire alphabet of the iris.

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The way he says black.

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Then black again.

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Black, black, then listen, every
one in every century black.

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It is black.

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Black at the center of
the picture, at the edges,

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at the heart of the flower, at
the crux of the known world.

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I say it is shining.

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I say it is black and shining.

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I say it, and my
name is Bruegel.

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I'm saying goodbye from
century to century.

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[APPLAUSE]

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It didn't seem that
melodramatic this time.

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I sort of kept it in tow.

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