accredited wrongs, and robustly attests

a social vision—or slides into artifice.

"Exactly," the painter said, "protest like this"—

and held a still-life print above his head,

apples by Cézanne, sculpted yellow, red.

The activist snapped, archly snide:

"Protest against what?"

                                            "Sloppy thinking," he replied.

© 2003 William F. Dougherty