scoffed at from the start,
by all the conventions
of form and decor,

Cubistic art,
crystal clear - sharp cut lines,
frame unshaken dimensions,
square - pale white plane
coupling another form,
mellow - off white

the Museum of Modern Art
fad of the forties
sin for revolutionaries,
socialists coughed,
liberals and modernists bought,

sixty busy years and more have passed
unchanged white,
on off white framed,
hangs
in the modern museum
for all the wrong reasons

shimon weinroth

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/white-on-off-white/