1 May 2012
Shrill with colour Spot paintings, citric cubes White on blue Everton strips Parmentier's '66 in Liverpool A colour chart Of bursts and stubs Synthetic colour streets Keyed up and chemical Kingfisher wings in polyester Pings As the visual volume's cranked Only the old go out in beige
Today the space Is cramped and squeezed Pockets, paintings A glut of Richter Blinky's bolts of coloured cloth Only samples Problems of excess Perverse and robbed of impact An optic sludge A Number 7 rack in Boots or Superdrug Begrudge the Tate's grey columns With their writhing, pinwheel pinks Pixel boxes pace and blush And roaring tape Pushing predictable
Warhol's silkscreen electric chairs Bleeding magenta Petrified and barbaric Tin tubes of oil paint And blue/black boy Again infest the canvas Pigments, dye, resins Failing to amaze A man without a shadow
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