Harry Burke

Here is a new poem from UCL art history undergrad, Harry Burke, which references Allen Ginsberg's 'In Back of the Real' and the surreal, recent cyber-world of early internet aesthetic transfused with art. The poem is rife with intertextuality, and brilliantly original.


in respect to the real

how can we now say

‘i wandered desolate’

in front of a tank factory

or on a bench

or anywhere?

in respect to the switchman

you’ve been made redundant

i sent bella a message

(she is the flower of the world)

of a rose

which i decided to colour yellow

not the yellow of ducklings

or bellies

or our great eastern future

but my own

r 255

g 255

b 0

yellow

http://art-canyon.com/tag/hildenbrandt-yellow-rose/