"In The Nude"

I just picked up a copy of John Lennon: The Collected Artwork. Like Lennon, John Lurie, Brian Eno, David Byrne, and many others whom I admire, I think of myself in broader terms than strictly “a musician.” I also am a writer, a runner, a composer, a diarist, a blogger, and a reader. There is a famous video of Jim Morrison being asked his occupation. He replies, “Artist.” It’s a title that covers a lot of ground. Art can be visual, visceral, virtual, and versatile. It is musical, culinary, physical, dimensional, interdisciplinary, tactile, and literary. There is performance art, fine art, pop art, high art and low art. I embrace them all. What is my occupation? I am an artist. I have even on occasion been a model!

In The Nude

© 2014 Brian Hutzell

Your cheap wine makes me vomit

A prophet deserves a decent salad

We don’t need no soda pop

Je suis malade

All my finest work is left undone

I don’t believe in signs

If I did, this would be one

I let Andy Warhol paint me in the nude

My nudity makes me free

Look and see all of me

The flexible cow surge

No, I don’t know what that means

Every indiscretion is exactly what it seems

Like slips of paper sticking in a book

Flagging all the places I think you should look

I let Andy Warhol paint me in the nude

My nudity makes me free

Look and see all of me

I roam like Johnny Appleseed

Barefoot through the wilderness

Planting seeds

And spreading my unique gospel

Pulling weeds

And raising up the possible

I let Andy Warhol paint me in the nude

My nudity makes me free

Look and see all of me