Art for art’s sake!
\nby cricketjeff on October 11, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nIt doesn’t matter what you have to say,
\nYour words aren’t words the World will want to hear.
\nI thought that I’d already made it clear,
\n“It’s only art if you can make it pay.”
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You know that you can show a better way
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But nobody will listen when you do.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Relax! You know the fault is not in you,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 It’s only art if you can make it pay.
\nBut paint a shed and call it “On Display”,
\nPersuade a fool to spend a heap of cash,
\nIt’s genius and not a heap of trash!
\nIt’s only art if you can make it pay.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 It doesn’t matter what you have to say,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 It’s only art if you can’t make it pay.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nYour prompt is a verse taken from the poem ‘The Ghost’ By Australian poet Henry
\nLawson.<\/p>\n
:`Flowing founts of inspiration leave their sources parched and dry,
\nScalding tears of indignation sear the hearts that beat too high;
\nChilly waters thrown upon it drown the fire that’s in the bard;
\nAnd the banter of the critic hurts his heart till it grows hard.
\nAt the fame your muse may offer let your lip in scorn be curled,
\n`Self and Pelf’, my friend, remember, that’s the motto of the world. ”<\/p>\n
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