would lose nothing
if every human artefact were destroyed
I think the great & terribly troubled Vincent would have agreed
that no painting is worth more than an ordinary bourgeois[e]
would be prepared to pay for it.
Unfortunately no such person existed for him, apart from
his sympathetic keeper and friend, Dr Gachet.
The bourgeoisie, true to form, offered him only their sneers.
But this, the only one of his paintings to have sold in a show
was bought by a Belgian painter, Anna Boch.
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