Hmmmm.... I like this, and I'm pondering the words.... Like usual you push me to reach a little bit further than before, which is my favorite part of your work! Very nicely done!

Very interesting and unique! :)

Wonderful work Mandi, and as with so much of your art it makes us think

looks like a cerial killer, mayber count chocula? Frankenberry? Booberry? lol.... I wonder if they even make those cerials anymore. cool art, the cut out lettering appears to be floating - cool effect.

Great done!

Now that's a tough on the weird side, I like it!!

An intriguing poem, Mandi... excellent!

Charming collage!

Excellent idea, words and all!!!

To be difficult to live is to be difficult to love! Great work!

evokative and well done mandi!!!

Interesting, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You been hanging out with Billy Burroughs? Makes my head hurt...in a good way.

I'm afraid my English is not good enough...so I can't totally appreciate the words...but your art is still stunning, so original.

Totally cool work! I love it!

I guess none of your fans above have a sense of 11/22 as the date of JFK's assassination. That's ok: The reactions are all fascinating, esp the mention of burroughs, who would probably approve of this work. (Count chocula is a great response too. Given the super-real tone of the piece---an ultra closeup of a newspaper shot---Count Chocula somehow fits right in.) But I think it's a newspaper-halftone of Oswald---I think---and the poem refers to him, I think, in some oblique way. It could refer to JFK, but I personally hear Oswald in it. I must confess (ignorance!) that I'm not quite sure what the last line means, except that oswald was like a long slim soul who didn't seem complete at all, and was oddly completed by the mass notoriety that the assassination brought him. And all the myths about him aside, he always looked lean & out of place, and I can't help but feel that from your last line---a line, btw, which has a fine musical rhythm, a dah, dah, dah, di-di-di-dah; nice ending rhythm). To me it feels like an unwitting soul placed somewhere he could not escape, whether by being pulled into the assassination or wrongly accused of it, period. And the ultra closeup of the halftone---which Warhol would approve of utterly---makes it appear a garish portrait of how media makes villains, and which makes oswald appear even more 'caught'. Further, you made ghost images beneath all the words, which is a very fine touch musically. It's jaundiced too, which seems fitting for the day. Most mystifying and enticing, with the right visual tone (that ultra media closeup of halftone, which is always dehumanizing), and I can't help but feel it's about the lean and gaunt oswald, who seemed like a character placed somewhere he doesn't understand & can't get out of...More provocative work from you, Mandi. Nice job with the ransom like paste-up too...