portraiture

the artist who painted herself
into a corner became:a 
caricaturist,a capitalist,
a crier in the square,became
a he:meat hanging in a gallery.

technik,ja,& a craftsman's pay,
portraiture persnickety
as language:the syntax of the eyes,
the mouth around the grammar,
the mother tongue inside.the bones 
of money in your hand,manipulation
of the spine:

sit
& let me please you.