for George Grosz

insightful grosz
     saw right through surreal estate lunkheads
he'd display materialismo
     with much sensitivity

standing firm he'd swipe at
     all the tripe of human weakness
drawing from the deepest
     darkest pits he could find

with a smirk he'd swoop
     and grasp the zeitgeist by its throat
in death-defying loops his brush
     de-mystified brutality

absolutely dramatizing
     discontent with breathlessness

pointing out the depth of cruelties
     in his awful era
populations made to suffer
     at behest of financiers uh
sounds familiar doesn't it

oozing undeniable wit
     grosz a peerless social critic
ripped away the smokescreens
     before awfulness

he foretold

KC Wilder's "WILDER BLUE YONDER" CD

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