Painter"

"I said you are only keeping me here
in the hospital, lying to my parents
and saying I am madder than I am,
because you only want to keep me here,
squeezing my last dollar to the pennies--
I'm saner than anyone in the hospital.
I had to say what every madman says--
a black phrase, the sleep of reason mothers monsters...
When I am painting the canvas is a person;
all I do, each blot and line's alive,
when I am finished, it is shit on the canvas...
But in his sketches more finished than his oils,
sketches made after he did those masterpieces,
constable can make us see the breeze...

Autore: Robert Lowell