Cezanne said though the world appears Complex, its made of cubes and spheres, Along with cylinders and cones: Four fundamentals that like bones In flesh, uphold whatever drapes Variety upon their shapes."

"They're doubly basic", Freud said."These are more than just geometris: your simple solids symbolize The organs that attract our eyes; The only subject of the arts is men's and women's private parts."

The body can as well as express Our sadness and our happiness And even sex's mindless dance Portrays the spirit's circumstae Of oscillation to and fro Between the cosmic Yes and No.

"The world", van Gogh said, "is a face In which I see my soul's grimace." But has reality become Merely emotion's medium? O universe of forms, I ask Are you a mirror, or a mask?

Theodore Melnechuk