There's a reason a 5 year old didn't do this

from State of That by Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams

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Please can we have something hopeful? The pride of Wakefield, after Trinity, is the Hepworth Gallery. “It’s a white elephant, no-one will ever go,” which would be true if it didn’t attract half a million visitors a year. Art can change people by changing the way they look at the world. You’re not supposed to like it all. That’s the point.

Plus, when people say, “this is poetry for people who don’t like poetry,” I find that an absurd and defeatist statement.

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There’s a reason a 5 year old didn’t do this….

Is this poetry for people who don’t like poetry?
Like music for people who don’t like music?
Here’s the James Last orchestra in words?

Is this poetry for people who don’t like poetry?
Like a story for people who don’t like stories?
Here’s some live & exclusive CCTV.

Is this poetry for people who don’t like poetry?
Here’s a photo for people who don’t like art.
You know what it is, don’t you?

One day, I said;
I know this place like the back of my hand;
And when I looked,
There was this huge lump.

I’ll be honest: I panicked.
The doctor said it was a ganglion.
Harmless. Hit it with a big book
About Modern Art.

There’s a reason they have benches in galleries,
But if I have to tell you what it is,
The moon just becomes a circle on paper.