Canada Dreams

Best Boy was produced from a photograph of a freshly circumcised Massai boy who seems to be looking forward to the day he can circumcise a boy himself, and so the baton is passed on. This is the dangerous aspect of our humanity. Vengeance can be so sanctimoniously applied and passed on.
The pastel is 18"X24". Completed Spring of 1991. $600.00 Can. Unframed.


            Good Boy

            The young boys car took the girl off
            Who knows where they went
            We stand wondering
            Under the stagnant stars

            The laughter of children
            Echo back through time
            In waves of ridicule
            I am supposed to just understand
            Under these ten thousand naked suns

            It's all right Dad
            She'll be OK
            She'll be back
            I'm still here
            I'll not do that
            She's not on her back
            I'll be a better boy than him
            Is that what you want?
            I'll be a good boy, a good boy
            Don't cry, don't cry

            The father bewails a daughter
            And loses a sun
            Under ten thousand naked sons

Entrance to John's works, The Bull Dream, Primitive Truth, The Messengers, Inner Realm, The Ancestors, Current

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