Self-portrait (07/30/10,11:36:01 PM)
Self-Portrait Titled Intellectual Ignorance
yeah,
that’s what I called it.
sounded clever at the time—
like I knew something
about the world.
I had read Sartre and Camus,
underlined all the wrong lines,
and drank enough cheap bourbon
to mistake despair for wisdom.
I thought too much,
said too little,
wrote like a man digging
with a spoon.
the mirror didn’t care.
it just looked back—
same tired eyes,
of a life pretending
to be deep.
call it what you want,
a portrait,
a confession,
a joke—
hell, maybe I got it right after all:
it is intellectual ignorance
to think I could ever
paint myself true.
Nice work! I like the added chiaroscuro effect.
I’m pleased you like it.
well done, on both counts
Thank you.