PICASSO

Philip Evans

Picasso, I don't understand.

But critics right throughout the land

Say he was a genius.

But I think that's rubbish, just between us.

He painted squares and cubes and circles,

In reds, and greens, and blues, and myrtles.

One, like a drawing by a kid

Is worth, I'm told, Ten million quid!

They say that he was very wise,

Because his portraits had their eyes

Pointing in a weird direction,

With their bodies all cut up

Like vivisection.

One in particular that I hate

Was painted in 1938.

Called "The Rooster" - what a shock!

To me,

It is a load of cock.

He painted till he was ninety one,

And it's said he had lots of fun.

Several periods: rose and blue,

Cubic, classic

To name a few.

With women round him by the score,

On he painted, more and more.

Naked women, fruit and apes

All in the most Peculiar shapes.

I've read that he was highly sexed,

Which leaves me really most perplexed.

Scribbles, angles, lines, and cubes? That's not the way

A man paints boobs!

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