How To Make Art

Construct a life made
from things glued to
a lollipop stick; a thing without
precedent, a mass of nothing
with a twist. 

But that's not enough anymore.
No art is possible without being
alive, hurt, and undignified.

Source: A cento composed from select lines and phrases from Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 


Note: First published in issue 3 of The Black Napkin.