scoffed at from the start, <br />by all the conventions <br />of form and decor, <br /> <br />Cubistic art, <br />crystal clear - sharp cut lines, <br />frame unshaken dimensions, <br />square - pale white plane <br />coupling another form, <br />mellow - off white <br /> <br />the Museum of Modern Art <br />fad of the forties <br />sin for revolutionaries, <br />socialists coughed, <br />liberals and modernists bought, <br /> <br />sixty busy years and more have passed <br />unchanged white, <br />on off white framed, <br />hangs <br />in the modern museum <br />for all the wrong reasons<br /><br />shimon weinroth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/white-on-off-white/
