Rusty Shackleford

Water falls from the bright air. It falls like hair. Falling across a young girl’s shoulders. Water falls. Making pools in the asphalt. Dirty mirrors with clouds and buildings inside. It falls on the roof of my house, it falls on my mother, and on my hair.

Sure he’s okay, aren’t you cat? Poor old cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I look at it I don’t have the right to give him one. We don’t belong to each other, we just took up by the river one day.

ORANGEY as CAT 

Marilyn Monroe I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever (double page headpiece, pages 112 and 113) from 1¢ Life, Andy Warhol, 1964, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the author, Walasse Ting, the editor, Sam Francis, and the publisher, E. W. Kornfeld Size: composition: 11 5/8 × 21 ¼" (29.5 × 54 cm); sheet (irreg.): 16 1/8 × 22 13/16" (41 × 58 cm) Medium: Lithograph from an illustrated book with sixty-two lithographs and reproductions