I promised, last night, that I would write TWO Low-ku poems tonight to atone for slinking off to bed early... Here is the first:
Haul ass hillbilly
That hot moonshine ain't gonna
Distill its damn self!
(That was a biographical piece from my dad's stories of life in the backwoods of Virginia!)
Now let's move on to the visual portion of tonight's show.... Wait... I suppose you had to SEE that poem to read it, so it was rather visual, as well.... Shit! Definitions are breaking down! Entropy and chaos reign! And here's a drawing that sort of speaks to that...
[Crayon, Sharpie, and colored pencil on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.]
I love making little pictures like that... (It was drawn on a piece of cut-up cardboard from a box of fruit snacks! Feel free to read into that whatever you'd like!)
In other super cool news, a fellow artist from NFT Showroom, @ftrsaroth, gave me an awesome NFT as a gift today. It's an "Unofficial Punk" that combines the original Cryptopunks' pixel-art style with my NFT Showroom icon (that creepy bear face) to create THIS masterpiece!
I seriously love it!!! Fantastic colors and great pixel interpretation of my scratchy drawing style!!! (And NO! I won't even consider selling. Maybe whoever ends up with my art collection after I die will sell it to you, but not me... It's a keeper!)
Final Low-ku of the night! (If you hate poetry, you're excused and can leave the table...)
Hee gee go poo pah
Mah law loo foo hingy chooch
Eeemah nongo leee!
Deep. Like Hugo Ball or Kurt Schwitters! (Am I right?)
Okay...you've stayed your hour. You're still in the will! Now go upon the land and spread the good word of the SALVATION to be found in poetry and Web3!!!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)