Poetry

Saxby Pridmore: Three Poems

Wolfgang Beltracchi 3 Wolfgang Beltracchi the forger Does paintings that can’t be spotted Of all but the femme Borgia. It’s not that he isn’t besotted It’s not that he can’t do a Dosso. But he works to serve the people And they prefer Picasso And so he makes them equals.   Should his talent be going to waste? For his work cannot be told apart He’s in jail a touch shamefaced We’d be better off if he was doing his art. Until we ask we can only wonder Could he please replace some Nazi plunder? Saxby Pridmore   as in…

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