in
‘fruit in a chinese bowl’
hockney’s pear is flat green
easily mistaken for an avocado
to
eat a pear for free
knowing it tastes three million
english pounds is our own business
banksy
has a pair of nostrils
for detecting things on the nose
but is not known for painting pears
while
arcimboldo’s noisy fruttivendolo
has a pear for a nose
and a face we could munch for lunch
and
nothing much touches
the most famous pears of cézanne
square there teasing our primal instincts
i.m.
David Hockney 11th of June 2026
