the empty cafe(s)
The lovesick man
although looking inward
is watching modern warplanes roar past.
Perhaps aiming for the cities and civilians
of Gaza,
Guernica,
Wounded Knee,
Nagasaki…
Nobody
can sing the blues
like
Blind Willie McTell
Nobody
can sing the blues
like
Blind Willie McTell
Digital collage: Details from Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ have been superimposed over photographs of rubble in Guernica and Gaza. The face of radical pacifist Martin Luther King Jr. is layered within a painting by antiwar artist George Grosz titled ‘The Lovesick Man’ (1916). Battlefield terrain from World War One frames the George Grosz painting.
“Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell...” from the Bob Dylan song Blind Willie McTell.
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