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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

2/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

2/60ish

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A painting of 4 abstract, cartoon creatures in oranges, greens, and reds on a blue-grey background. Words painted in white cursive lettering say "All at once is what eternity is"

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature art

Ah. I hadn't really considered the amount of alt-text required when I started this; but, I'm going to try my best to carry on. 😄

3/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature art

Ah. I hadn't really considered the amount of alt-text required when I started this; but, I'm going to try my best to carry on. 😄

3/60ish

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A black & white print of mostly cursive, black script with a scribbled drawing of an bird/lion type creature in the upper 1/4 of page. The text:
"the lion part
& that which is water lily, sea gull,
Heather, crimson-dotted butterfly,
Lizard, ant, and heart-shaped leaf,
White panther, lynx, marsh frog,
Grass, dogs, and little paradise beetles -
Oh it's a lot of business we have,
Being part and substance of everything
That lives! O yeas this tall trade of ours,
This business of being represented here
On earth in all these funny-wonderful
Shapes and guises such as ... well, ostriches,
Walruses, elephants and three-toes galuttos...
No, this business of being-alive
Is not really 9,824 feet long,
Or Alexander the Great (was it?) wide,
And Jesus Buddha Jonny Jepps high..."

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

5/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

5/60ish

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A cartoonish picture of a giant bird-like creature overlooking a tiny landscape of 
three small hill with a tiny stick figure at the top of one hill holding up its
hands. The tall creature's head reaches up to a crescent moon and three stars and
is hunched under them. The animals feathers are bright red chevrons on a bright 
blue background. 

The following text written in crude cursive:

At the very top of the page: "What can you do up here"

Middle: "that you can't go on doing"

Bottom: "just as vilely on earth?"

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

6/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

6/60ish

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A greyscale print with two black, bird-like creature in sillouete. 
One is standing up, with wings out-stretched talking down to the shorter creature next to a tree.
Around these figures are the following words spaced around them:

you know, somehow
I think, old pal
(an image of a white, shining sun with numerous, spikey rays break up the words)
that the-re
might now
just conceivably
perhaps be a nicer way
of greeting
me that right off the
so to speak bat
coming out with
GOODBYE

Sure, of
course I know
you're my
best
friend

How else..? After all,
this is the first time 
we've met, isn't it

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

Trying to write the alt-text to this images is really challenging. I'm struggling
to convey a useful transcription...sorry. Anyone want to take a crack at it?? ;-)

7/60ish

# first.items[].contentMap.en
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

Trying to write the alt-text to this images is really challenging. I'm struggling
to convey a useful transcription...sorry. Anyone want to take a crack at it?? ;-)

7/60ish

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A brightly colored print in mostly oranges & yellows with an abstract sun & two creatures. One, a short, two-legged creature wearing a crown & the other, taller with a beak.

The following text written in a crude cursive with a mostly white fill with
black outlining it:

Imagine Seeing
You
Here
After all it's
not every day
in this big old
lousy world
that
the
two
nicest
people
get together
like
this

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

- A review of this book from 1984: https://www. csmonitor.com/1984/1102/110256.html
- The entire book of images can be borrowed from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/whatshallw edowit0000patc

8/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

- A review of this book from 1984: https://www. csmonitor.com/1984/1102/110256.html
- The entire book of images can be borrowed from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/whatshallw edowit0000patc

8/60ish

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A vertically tall rectangular print splint in two horizontally
The top left square contains a black/steel blue crudely drawn face
surrounded with many roughly drawn white circles and black & steel blue marks
against an barely revealed olive green background. To the right of this are the
following words:

The World
Is Nothing
That Can
Be Known
in the shadow
we shall see
the color of
God's eyes again

The bottom half of the print are the sillouetes of:
On the left, a bearded head with a crown.
On the right, a four legged creature with a spiky back
The background is a black wash and the creatures are outlined in white
with a roughly drawn grey-bluish green body
Beneath this image are the words:

Beyond Love
there is no belief

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

After a glitch in the matrix, back to our not-so-regularly posted artwork & my feeble attempts to describe works of art in alt-text...🤨

9/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

After a glitch in the matrix, back to our not-so-regularly posted artwork & my feeble attempts to describe works of art in alt-text...🤨

9/60ish

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A yellowish-white washed background with a large cartoonish animal-like head drawn
in broad black watercolor strokes with two stubby legs. In the bottom half of the 
image is a bluish-grey salamander creature with some red highlights.

The text:

In
The
Long
Run

This is
a race
where everybody
ends up
in a tie, sorta

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

This is probably my favorite print of the entire collection.

10/60ish

# first.items[].contentMap.en
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

This is probably my favorite print of the entire collection.

10/60ish

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A yellowish-white washed background with a large cartoonish person with an almost
trapezoidal, smiling head. I has four flowers sprouting out of its left, up-raised hand
and is cradling a blue bird in its down-turned right arm.

The text:

I pro-
claim
this
inter-
national

shut
your big
fat
flapping
mouth
week

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

I don't have the energy to describe the goofy, beautiful image. Sorry.

11/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

I don't have the energy to describe the goofy, beautiful image. Sorry.

11/60ish

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Picture text:

Caring is the only daring. Oh you know it.

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

Back to sharing some more picture-poems

12/60ish

# first.items[].contentMap.en
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

Back to sharing some more picture-poems

12/60ish

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A cartoonish print of three creatures

The text:

I have a funny
feeling
that some very
peculiar-looking
creatures
out there
are watching us

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

13/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

13/60ish

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A vertically split print of a bird-like creature on the top half of the image.
On the bottom half is a rabbit-like creature on the left side with a salamander-like creature.

The cursive text:

The birds
are very
careful
of
this
world

Ha! a lot of good
that'll do them!

(Behind those desks
some mighty
dangerous
guys
are sitting, baby.)

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

14/60ish

A mostly yellow background with a cat/tiger-like creature in the lower third of the print

The cursive text:

As bitter &
far as a tiger's
frown O "Rulers" of the World
So my "blessings" unto you

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

14/60ish

A mostly yellow background with a cat/tiger-like creature in the lower third of the print

The cursive text:

As bitter &
far as a tiger's
frown O "Rulers" of the World
So my "blessings" unto you

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A mostly yellow background with a cat/tiger-like creature in the lower third of the print

The cursive text:

As bitter &
far as a tiger's
frown O "Rulers" of the World
So my "blessings" unto you

# first.items[].content
I think it's about time I pick this series up again.

From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

15/60ish

A somewhat rainbow print with a clown-like face

The mostly cursive text:

HALLELU
JAH
is my name
and what's
goin' on around
here I find almost as
captivating as the thought
of a lipless hyena announcing
the next after the last train

# first.items[].contentMap.en
I think it's about time I pick this series up again.

From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

15/60ish

A somewhat rainbow print with a clown-like face

The mostly cursive text:

HALLELU
JAH
is my name
and what's
goin' on around
here I find almost as
captivating as the thought
of a lipless hyena announcing
the next after the last train

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A somewhat rainbow print with a clown-like face

The mostly cursive text:

HALLELU
JAH
is my name
and what's
goin' on around
here I find almost as
captivating as the thought
of a lipless hyena announcing
the next after the last train

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

16/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

16/60ish

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A print with an orangish-yellow, streaky background with two figures. On the left bottom is a two-legged bird-like creature. On the lower right is a mushroom shaped creature with a long stem and a smile at the top.

The black cursive text of the page reads:

"They Don't Seem To
Understand That
Un less Someone
Does
Nothing
Soon
The
Sky'll
Sure
not Be
All
That's Up"

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

17/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art

17/60ish

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A greyscale ink print of a crudely drawn smiling face.

The cursive text reads:

The World's Not
Enough Really

For The
Kind of Rent
We Have To Pay
To Live In Us

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

Tonight, after 30 years, I've started to re-read his book "The Journal of Albion Moonlight". Might as well dive deep, if I'm going to dive in at all.

18/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

Tonight, after 30 years, I've started to re-read his book "The Journal of Albion Moonlight". Might as well dive deep, if I'm going to dive in at all.

18/60ish

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A print with two figures and orange background. 

There is a large bird-like creature on the right taking up most of the print. The body is striped with expressionist brush strokes of horizontal blue-grey with several smaller, vertical red & yellow strokes.
A smaller figure on the left is holding up a small, yellow heart with a smiley face, offering it to the large figure.

The text:
"Of
course
they
will
win

That's the only victory we've got left"

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

19/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

19/60ish

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A print with a white background. A one-eyed, black & orange, 4 legged creature with 3 horns on its back, and grey wings with black strips is landing on a two legged table.

The text(partially in block, second half in script):
"It's
Always
Too Soon
Or
Too Late

Fact is,
the train
don't come
on time
for
nobody

except
those who
should walk
all the way
too hell on their
own backs"

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

One of my favorites. Lot's of text. Please forgive the brevity of the image description.

20/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

One of my favorites. Lot's of text. Please forgive the brevity of the image description.

20/60ish

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A print with a yellow border. There are 3 figures. A short, squat, 6 legged orange figure at the bottom with flowers blooming out of its hind & head. A blue bird sits on its head looking up at a large blue figure with a large probiscus and a number of feathers coming out of their head.

The text:
"The Best Hope
Is that one
of these days
the ground
will get disgusted
enough just to walk
away ~~ leaving
people with nothing
more to stand ON
than what they

have so bloody well
stood for up to now"

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

21/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

21/60ish

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Two abstract figures float on a white background. One: a washed blue, four limbed creature floats above a pale, yellowish-black tail-less salamander.

The cursive text:
"Do you think that
somebody will find
us in time?

Yeah, I'm afraid so.
That's the one
thing they're
bloody good
at."

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

22/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

22/60ish

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A print with an orange, black, and yellow hatched border. Two vertically separted images divide the page in half. The top one has a thick black border with an open mouthed bird-ish creature. The bottom has no border & is filled with a bird creature with spiky black "feathers".

The cursive text reads:
"What is
not, then, is in every
case
the world"

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

23/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

23/60ish

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A print with a yellowish streaked background. Two blue-grey figures occupy the top half. The left one is a one-eyed, humanoid upper torse with slicked-back hair. The right figure is dog-headed figure with light blue dots on it's body standing on its tail on a square occupying the lower right. It has 5 creatures with eyes as heads.

The text:
"Sure, Leroy,
There is
A
Kindness
Of
Willing
& A Cruelty
Of Won'ting
Still - no dog ever
Doubt his dogness
The maple tree
Never mistake
Himself for
Any other cuss
But a man -
Who is us?"

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

23/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

23/60ish

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A yellowish-orange background with three abstract animals: a grey sillouette of a cow near the top left, a black dog(?) with spiky, bluish-red hair coming out of the middle of its back on the lower right. Finally, on the lower left a small, blue, black two-legged worm(!?).

The cursive text:
"Peace now
for
all
men
or
amen
to
all things"

# first.items[].content
From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

25/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

25/60ish

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A print with a pale bluegreen yellowish background
An yellow-orange sun in the upper right
Two creatures. One large on the left, standing tall
swinging an arm in bold blues and reds wearing a crown
A smaller figure is in the lower right with a blue green torso with yellow spots, two arms
two legs with an orange-red smiling head & curly hair.

The text:
"the Continuous CHRIST

dying rising O seasons
of Earth Sky Sea Air
in one Touching Hearing
the Seeing of the Sun
and these mistaken
& pathetic imaginings

"man"

"bird"
"fish"
"beast"
"flower"
"stone" "lake" "tree"

O this
forever-leaving animal
arriving always where
all "reason"
denies it standing
into that unmoving
Noting Everythingness
back & forth
and yet again
O
Eternity's Single Clockman
"Life" "Death" O
hallucinatory mask"

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

26/60ish

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From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature

26/60ish

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An abstract-expressive black, grey, and dark yellows with bold strokes of black & blue-grey with slight highlights of reddish-pink. A cartoonish dog-like creature with blue-grey feathers or hair in the lower left portion of the image.

The large white cursive text reads:
"my
god
the
sorrow
of
it"