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Exhibition: Poems and Song Lyrics: Inspiration for Visual Artists
Art No: PP3060
Artwork Width: 30.48 CM (12 INCHES)
Artwork Height: 30.48 CM (12 INCHES)
Year Created: 2025
Medium: Oil
Surface: Wood
This painting was inspired by a poem titled Oppression, which appeared in Commonweal Magazine.
Oppression
Not the worst part, nightmares.
Not the heat dome
nor the same dun yard
sewn to earth outside the glass slider
with its pinch-pleated burgundy draperies.
Twenty hyenas corner Red the lion
on TV and no one interferes.
Not the producer,
not the one with the camera
nor the British narrator.
The lion a done for.
You can see it in his eyes
as he makes little charges
toward one or the other
while they circle and laugh,
yip, bite his back.
Original Price: Upon Request