If I Were Andy Warhol

If I were Andy Warhol
The things that I would see
If I were Andy Warhol
All the things that we could be

If I were Andy Warhol
Camera, paint, in hand
I would capture America
As it Truly is
And one day
They would understand

If I were Andy Warhol
One day I would be seen
More than character, artist
PoP culture icon
But as Genius Nobility

If I were Andy Warhol
The world around me would be inspiration
I would see Elvis. Marilyn. Campbell’s Soup
And make them My creation

If I were Andy Warhol
I would lose myself in the Factory
Make Celluloid visions
Make nothing into Art
Always working. working. working.

I would call it the Factory because it was a factory.
To cover costs of zines
Film and rent I always had to produce.

The inertia that I had started
Becoming slave to my design
As I was master of my feral circus
Every moment was defined

Studio 54
Greenwich Village
The dance floor
If I were Andy Warhol
The world would be my oyster

If I were Andy Warhol
I would be larger than life in death
My work would sell for millions more, than I would have ever guessed

*(Matthew Bowers)* ~93
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