 It's obvious | ||
| by Greg Hewett | ||
It’s obvious beauty is a postage stamp, a composed self-portrait of Frida Kahlo wearing a simple necklace, an image chosen by the USPS not because it was like one she painted for Trotsky. Of course beauty could not include imagery of hammer and sickle or black monkey leering over her shoulder or parrot twisted under her chin. And not the one with snakes. Not the one of her all butched-up, hair cropped short, wearing one of Diego’s suits after they split for the final time. Not one with wheelchair, spinal-brace, or scar down her long trunk. Forget the one of her cloven wide open, a jungle of history and myth, of poetry burgeoning forth from her innermost. Most definitely not the one of her wearing the collar of thorns in memory of Jesus and Trotsky and revolution lost. | ||
It's All Temporary
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