# Do poets & artists performe for them selves

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 15, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-poets-artists-performe-for-them-selves/155251 "2003-02-15T13:31:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![savagepeace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@savagepeace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/savagepeace)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-poets-artists-performe-for-them-selves/155251/1 "2003-02-15T13:31:26Z")

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my message is posted as a poem:

for only you

Last Saturday night you were brave  
stepping high heeled. Out  
of the wave you penciled-in. Pink  
floyd silenced the black dogs barking.  
In mad wait words dove, you spoke  
into the minutes that buried midnight.  
Tortured traces of you open & closed  
plastic bone shutters throwing light  
upon dungeon doors. Imprisoned  
looks searched your eyes for who you  
used to be. For the strings that moved  
& your sounds that bent & knelt 'at  
the doorways of perception. Tricks  
performed in the pale-past filled  
my mind with questions I’d all ways  
wanted to ask, just why 10 minute  
conversations, were ’ a toxic interlude ’  
to you ? I moved my beat  
to your sound, your images animated  
the bent faces from a chrome ball.  
Unrecognisable, distorted to us all.  
Pause turned to gaze upon the dwell  
in your voice, stranding my attention  
to see the pictures you painted  
were for, only you.  
C—sspd-Jan27th-03

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**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-poets-artists-performe-for-them-selves/155251/2 "2003-02-15T16:27:26Z")

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I think you may have answered your own question.