no photo (april 2006)

-as if to capture this moment
this movement
were a CAPITAL CRIME,
a sublime TRANSGRESSION
but such impressions
only last moments though
and when we forget
without haste they remind
and in haste they define -these simple rules

rules
rarely changing –never allowing the changes to be
broadcast
as if fighting time’s sublime alterations

alternatively
they ask-without moments notice
and with high hopes
expectations
for those rare and beautiful items

and so we are forced to recognize that like “currency” or “precious metals”
they withhold –so as not to DEVALUE
but if they believed in the truth of TRUE BEAUTY…. They would know

A SMILE IS WORTH MUCH MORE THAN GOLD.


((((((there was this photo of a sign that read "no photo" tied up in barbed wire... i think a war picture... but i put it in my art book and decided that i would write about that concept... that denial... and i use to do it too.
that one verse is about how often people who dont let me take pictures of them ask for pics later... anyway... whatever. no photo... written in a park in istanbul))))))