Monday, Jun. 06, 2011 - 12:46 p.m.
Andy Warhole's Tombstone
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Pop artist Andrew Warhola ( 1928- 1987 ) is buried in a Pittsburg PA cemetary. A steady succession of fans leave tribute cans of tomato soup on his
headstone, which just rust in the rain and leave brown rings.. His family has to scrub these off with steel wool.
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when a man's art
sells for over a million dollars
per silk screen print
many years after he has died
it's time for
a sidewalk star in Manhattan
so his grave gets left alone
His reputation is for
anybody to observe
any way they wish
but his familiy owns his body
or more accurately,
family is
the curator of flesh
alive or dead
as it is through the agency
of family
you receive a body in the first place
and it is family who are
responsible to dispose of it
when fans regularily
leave mess for the family to clean up
it's time for an off site shrine
