there's a feeling there
it's stuck in my wrist
   so I slice it off
      and it flipped up to my throat
   I wrung it out
      and it slipped to my tummy
         I struck it again
      it bounced to my head
         I shot a load
            and smothered my canvass 
         dead and red

Jackson Pollock, American abstract expressionist painter, was born today in 1912.

W. B. Yeats, Irish Nobel Prize winning poet, died on this day in 1939.