NO STRINGS

 RATHER 

HAVE  OATS

Don't let that horse
eat that violin
cried Chagall's mother
But he
                        kept right on
                                                 painting

And became famous

And kept on painting
                                       The Horse With Violin In Mouth

And when he finally finished it
he jumped up upon the horse
                                                     and rode away
                  waving the violin

And then with a low bow gave it
to the first naked nude he ran across

And there were no strings
                                                 attached

Published for Dverse
Pictures and Poems

"14" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
from A Coney Island of the Mind.
© New Directions Publishing, 1958

IMAGE:
Eye of the Violin
by Chris Sorbera
in DeviantArt