Local poet Scott Owens and other area poets will be reading original poems they wrote in response to AOA artwork at the auction finale Friday, February 29, 2008. Scott wrote this poem in response to the theft from the fundraiser.
Art Stolen from Benefit Show
Art Stolen from Benefit Show
So few appreciate, fewer buy
it comes as great surprise
when three paintings by a local artist
grow legs and walk away,
stranding AIDS patients,
abused women, abandoned pets.
Later, the artist looking at the blankness
on the wall imagines her lines
hanging in hostile halls, pictures
this deviant desperado of art,
can’t help but smile at the familiar,
love that risks freedom for possession.
Scott Owens
Scott Owens
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