If Everybody Could Draw but Few Could Hug

If everybody could draw but few could hug
we would appreciate the art in a beautiful embrace,
Michelangelo would be gone from memory
and from the Sistine Chapel.

If Everybody Could Draw but Few Could Hug

Bob Komives

We would express powerful emotions with sketches on our shirt sleeves
and buy shirts only if their sleeves were drawable.
Tatoos would be do-it-yourself and erasable.
Hugs would be flaunted by the rich who can afford them,
enjoyed by the poor who can’t sell them,
and envied by the middle class
who can’t save them.

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