“you like Woody Allen?”

he asked me

love him

i said

“do you know what he did?!”

yes

“how could you like

that monster?”

he makes good movies

“that is awful.

do you listen to Kanye?”

yes

“Michael Jackson?”

king of pop

“so you only like

criminals and predators.”

i like artists

i said

and ordered another beer

so you do not

separate the artist

from the art

“no.”

he said

“why should they get

my money?”

because every

chef is a scumbag

yet you just ordered wings

“not the same”

because of fame?

“i guess”

artists need to be

fucked up

or they are fake artists

“not true”

name one

i said

he named bad artists

and worse comedians

i closed my tab

and went home

and watched

a Roman Polanski film