Unseemly Semblances

The lunatic smile of the fringe artist,
no, the calm, placid stolidity of
the folk artist, no, the frantic
cry for attention of the neglected
artist, no, the self dismissive grin
of the amateur artist,

no, no, no, the misunderstood genius,
the tucked away letter writer to
the world, the democratic atom
of the attention economy, the mad
plotter of memesphere manipulation,

but maybe just the mild eccentric,
the harmless hobbyist, no, no,
none of these, none of these,
none of these, none of these,
let the texts be, let the writer be,
let the calm eye of the conscious
storm just be.