' ' ' ' Ups & Downs Of Being An Artist's Model Poem by Dónall Dempsey

'Might i suggest
(she sweetly smiles)
'...you don't...twitch? '

'Sorry! ' I bashfully apologise
going bright red & more jumpy.

For 'it' alas, seems to have
a mind of its own

turned on by the soft sound of charcoal
caressintg the white skin of paper

& 'it'
appears to be
quite enthusiastic

(& quite distracted
by the fact that)

all you are wearing is
a hat.

Eddie Calvert
& his golden trumptet

lost somewhere in the 50's
comes back from my lost childhood

and scatters 'Cherry Pink
& Apple Blossom White'

across the summer
of this garden.

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There are time I am asked to disrobe not for any sensual lacivious purpose but purely for aesthetic artistic purposes. Alas, there are time I admit that both the lasciviousness and the ethic of the aesthetic come together to form a Venn Diagram incorporating both these element.. Then the aesthetic is set aside and the sensual like cream...comes to the top.