Found poem, collage, or something else? "Brushy Skewerings"

BRUSHY SKEWERINGS*

– starring John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, & a hand-painted orange

And a scene it was:

amorous,               rivalrous

and incestuous;

at once avant-garde

and avant-garde in reverse.

"…"The heroic artist battling, alone, some existential sublime"…"

Set against lovers, O'Hara and Rivers,

knee to knee as they worked:

lithographs like valentines,

poems like jokes, drawing friends

into notes and hand-painted oranges.

Pretty pamphlets like

the thin, fragile invisible—

a library shelf.



Poetry was pushing.

Prickly.

Art was.

Old ground, new, moves.

Remember the context?

Mounting tension rivers

a lecherous painter

as his vampy shrink.

Mr. Ashbery, a touchy-feely jock

touching and feeling Momma's sculptures,

Momma sent up the psychic.

Angst held dear the more polemical money.

…"Longtime Lovers Give Bravura Performance As Cash-Crazed Tycoons"…

And Thugs play corporate in the boardroom.

The friction of their meeting

makes this moment

glow.

 

*Once in a while I read something I immediately know I want to turn into a a poem.  Strangely it's often a newspaper story.  Such a thing happened today. The following is comprised of only words found (%95 of the time in the same order) from this newspaper review about something close to my heart and my interests. I've only changed punctuation and at times slightly re-ordered a word or two.