Afternoon Dissection

from Winter on Callisto, 1971 by Chameleon Treat

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After lunch had come to pass, i heard him tell the bleary class,
"...many ways to skin a cat..." He laid it flat upon its back
and took the sacrificial knives--the sharps we're trading every time--
to disconnect the fragile heart and paste it to a pastel chart.

And I kept all the drawings that you did
when you were a kid.
But i guess there's beauty in that too,
if it's what you wanna do.

Labelling the lifeless parts, he treats it like an ancient art
where history, anatomy, will intersect so naturally.
Like Muybridge's photographs, the movements held you in their grasp,
tracing lines and muscle groups, the split begins to be confused.

But I liked the drawings that you did
when you were a kid.
But I guess there's beauty in that too,
if it's satisfying you.

Finer studies, lesser art; the stem, the flower, drawn apart
like puzzle pieces, alchemy, together linked till recently
like cutting teeth while pulling hair. In the margins of Voltaire the
diagrams of heads and hands that blast away the ampersands.

And I wish you still painted like you did
back when you were a kid.
But I guess there's beauty in that too
if it's what you wanna do.

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from Winter on Callisto, 1971, released September 17, 2020

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Chameleon Treat Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Chameleon Treat is an artist interested in neo-psychedelia and offbeat pop.

The band is currently the solo project of Andrew Kruske.

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