The Secret Contained Within A Painting of A Potato

And as this artist talked to us
I looked at his paintings
and thought to myself
they were some of the worst
I’d ever seen.
Big brown volumes
which according to him,
we could interpret however we wanted.
Well, I knew what my interpretation
would be.
And like most artists
he had an inflated sense 
of his own talent
and a whole bunch of pretensions
of being
Michelangelo
or
Sorolla.
He’d painted this great big potato
he said it was a microcosm of the universe.
I guess he had a point there
I mean Buddhists talk about the entire universe
being contained in the top of a cup,
don’t they?
he tells us
we don’t really see colours
it’s light reflecting - 
and
I’m thinking
I fucking learned that in high school.