Picasso's Art

the periods changed from blue to rose
who really truly knows
cubism and surrealism
the harlequin or the minotaur?
from hour to hour to hour
woman to women to young girls
dancers at your party wearing smiles,
symbolism traveled years and many miles
stretched seductively on your famous canvas
while the German bombs fell
and transformed Guernica into Hell
on Earth, this moment is now all right
in that hilly Spanish town tonight:
Marie-Therese Walter hanged herself
where you once built a studio shelf
armies of colored bullets in your head
another lover who would soon be dead
when you weren't able to drink anymore
and died older, near a Mougins floor
Jacqueline Rogue would shoot herself
you built that shelf,
too.
but what could genius do?