DREAM OF VENUS
A mosaic needing restoration
By SalvadorDali
Can be seen and stepped on
Next to the massive and secure
US Open tennis complex
In Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
Salvador Dali designed a pavilion
For the 1939 World's Fair
Which he titled: "Dream of Venus"
He went all-out creating
A surrealist wonder of erotic images
His intention was to display a replica of Botticelli's Venus
With a head of a fish at the entrance to the pavilion
Except the organizers of the fair said no fish head for you
Dali protested by writing a pamphlet :
"Declaration of the Independence of the Imagination and the Rights of Man to His Own Madness"
Several months later the world was at war
A much too real nightmare
Even Dali couldn't imagine
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