The Difference Between Art and Life Is Only Apparent Valentine

If you won’t let the painter
into the painting
how will you get
the painting out of the painter
what paintings would exist
without this essential confusion
merely a trope for the world
inasmuch as painting seeks
a universal audience of one
isn’t it always some lack
that painting speaks to
the lack of you
the luck of you (just say it)
the fuck of you too