The Canvas Is At Times A Torturous Bastich

      Crew Moving Onto The Wind is a painting I finished in 2006. It's a personal favorite

It would really be something else altogether

To create a work that would be both original and clever

That would please the sensibilities of all who viewed it

Even those who disdain all art for the sake of being hip

Would not be able to suppress their awe, not one single bit

So it is with dogged persistence

And bull-headed, stubborn insistence

That brush continues to attack canvas without restraint

The desire to create is sometimes so overwhelming

But brother, between you and I, sometimes it ain't