Patterned wallpaper is bland. Blank white walls are best. Printed shapes are formulaic— too predictable— try as they might to be unique there will always be another wall, room, house dressed identically to this so called novelty. Plus the strips never fit perf- ectly, so double-headed mutant hummingbirds dirty the design. Blank white walls are best. They never pretend to be anything they're not. They can be everything all at once. They conceal nothing. Hidden within are brush strokes and cracks and flakes of paint— how can wallpaper (limply plastered on) compare? Everyone agrees, because when both begin to peel, one gets a new coat, the other a new suit.
I like the use of parentheses in the second to last stanza. This makes me think of the “Rabbit In A Snowstorm” painting that Wilson Fisk has in Daredevil. It says a lot about you as an artist that when you see a blank wall, you don’t see blankness, but instead possibilities. I think that is something artists strive for.