The Frieze Art Fair by William Conelly

The Frieze Art Fair  (Regent’s Park, London)
 
Here leans a surreal door:
no hinges, lock or knob,
of cobalt plastic poured,
aligned far out of true
with gallery walls and floor.
 
        In Fiscal Land Macabre,
        Art lands a visual coup
        against the moneyed mob’s
        overly-egged décor!
        Sense the artistic sob!
 
Sense function set askew.
How’s this a corridor
passed money’s moral slough?
Plumb again.  Your day job
does what Art’s supposed to.

William Conelly

Amateurs with cameras are tolerated at the Frieze Arts Fair in autumnal London, so I have dozens of arty - or tarty - photos waiting to be strained into verse.  To date, however, only the snap of the function-free door has devolved to print.  At UC Santa Barbara I took a Master's Degree under the renowned American poet Edgar Bowers so, perhaps, some long symbology of passage is involved.  Don't know.  I've retired from teaching in turn and am certainly pleased The Able Muse Press has published a collection of mine, some of the poems passed forward from those old, rare days.  It may be reviewed or ordered here: http://www.ablemusepress.com/william-conelly-uncontested-grounds-poems.