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Michelangelo: Painter & Poet
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Michelangelo
with steel balls
& a wire brush
wishing he was
wearing motorcycle leathers,
going wild & crazy,
stares cross eyed at the
Sistine Chapel ceiling-
nose touching moist paint
body stretch out on a plank
bones held by ropes from falling-
painting the face of Jesus
& the Prophets
with a camel hair brush-
in such a position
a genie emerges as a poet-
words not paint
start writing his sonnets,
a second career is born-
nails & thorns
digging at his words:
it is finished.
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Sistine Chapel Ceiling and Lunettes, 1508-12
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(applause received) 
Carrie
Martin Canada
"Great Canadian poet now in Usa. We miss him he was a budding talent while in Canada."
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