Trigger Warnings

Surrounded by Disturbing Art

By JEFFREY KINDLEY

 MAY 14, 2015 8:45 AM May 14, 2015 8:45 am

I was triggered at the Frick.

Those alarming Veroneses

may appeal to certain crazies;

I felt terrified and sick.

I was triggered at the Met.

“Los Caprichos” are disgusting

with their cheating and their lusting,

and those Schieles at the Neue

are at least as bad as Goya.

I was triggered at the Guggenheim,

the Whitney and the New.

I left MoMA in a coma

and I think that I might sue.

We need signs that give a sense of

what you’ll find in a museum:

“Works of art may be offensive.

Are you sure you want to see ’em?”