That girl’s got a beautiful figurine, I’m not quite worthy And she’s too fragile for me, anyway Porcelain and cream. I’d break something delicate and fine It’s just not our time,  Capodimonte. © 2024 John “JohnnyArt” Pavlou

I’m not a functionary I’m not a mercenary. I’m not a factotum. I am not a worker bee I’m something else…  Observing, reporting – A screen between me and “reality“  I can see, and yet not comprehend, connect, or relate…. This is not my realm or my world I am non-local and lost in space […]

Fire falls from the sky. Cindy picks up her ukulele and cries. This is how it ends, she sings. Silently, into the airless wind Bobby clear some wasps with a torch. They keep on flying into the jet a flame. The desire to get home is so strong. That it can kill you on your […]

Come, my love, give me your hands And take a leap toward me I am your man I will be your bridge Over this muddy puddle  To dry land I have no magic Only two strong arms  To swing you over You may still land  In a bit of sludge And splash my trousers  And […]

Did I make poetry? Did I make you dance? Did I make magic? Did you wet your pants? Did I squeeze your brain cells? Did I touch your heart cells? Did I tickle your gonads? Did I make your parts swell? Did I make you feel the weather? Did I make you cry? Did I […]

The first song is a cry The last song is a sigh  And in between, A lot of tuneless warbling… Nothing wrong, You sing your song I don’t want to be entertained I want to be enthralled But not by spectacle Rather, by the mundane: A grain of rice, A drop of rain Must there […]

First you have to live within the context of no context for a while  I cannot quite agree that life is meaningless But I do have to wonder where meaning exists…  Because we are each born into a context, a 360° circle of meanings and definitions and shared understandings and collective values Maybe there was […]