To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Tim Wells - My Sad Hooligans
Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter
My Sad Hooligans
After Thom Gunn
One by one they slip to birds,
curries, darkness.
Saturday night never lives to its promise,
though a nod and a wink sometimes does.
These men we have been
and could have been.
Wasted force spent with passion;
initials pissed against the wall.
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