i)

how difficult to be
an artist
lily muses

everyone wants a
piece
hunger too

verity
is for
posterity..

may cut me
******* ear
off

or apply
for a grant
blue..

ii

how difficult just
to be
(no-one asked
me)

perhaps, i would
have
preferred
to float

some distant
mote
or a purple
insect

or fish
jesus wept
to be or not
to be..