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Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.
  • "Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory." --Scott D. Weitzenhoffer




(Notice: I've included the entire poem below, since I really don't know which verse(s) "pairs" well with that image to properly show the poet's deep anger towards that painting and other Gauguin works.)

 
Gauguin, / you piss me / off. You strip me bare / assed, turn me on my side / shove a fan in my hand / smearing fingers on thigh / pout my lips below an / almond eye and silhouette me / in smouldering ochre. I move / just a little / in this putrid breeze / hair heavy to / fuscous knees, still / I’m the pulse / on the arm of this wall / and I’ve drawn her to me again. Here she comes. Not liking that she likes me / not liking you, but knowing that she / likes me, not liking you / liking me, but she / likes me and sees me, / but not you, / because you / Gauguin, / piss us / off.
  • "Gauguin,
    you piss me
    off.

    You strip me bare
    assed, turn me on my side
    shove a fan in my hand
    smearing fingers on thigh
    pout my lips below an
    almond eye and silhouette me
    in smouldering ochre.

    I move
    just a little
    in this putrid breeze
    hair heavy to
    fuscous knees, still
    I’m the pulse
    on the arm of this wall
    and I’ve drawn her to me again.

    Here she comes.

    Not liking that she likes me
    not liking you, but knowing that she
    likes me, not liking you
    liking me, but she
    likes me and sees me,
    but not you,
    because you
    Gauguin,
    piss us
    off."
    -- "Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894", from Selina Tusitala Marsh (2009). Fast Talking. Auckland University Press. 
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