You Gotta Have A Gimmick

You can sacrifice your sacro
Working in the back row.
Bump in a dump till you're dead.
Kid you gotta have a gimmick
If you wanna get ahead.

Thus Sondheim has spoken.

The folks in the booth opposite mine at last week’s Farmers Market had a gimmick: they were actually creating their art on-site! Placid landscapes and bas-relief Indian adobes. Hm.

I have yet to find my own particular gimmick.

Photo: Painting—Marin County, 2009