Today I tried drawing a horse without looking at a horse. I kept using drawing-trickery to disguise my ignorance of horse anatomy–then a Yiddish word popped into my head that I’d seen in Philip Roth’s PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT and also Herman Wouk’s YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE. The word is chazerai. Wouk defined it in HAWKE as “faking, foolishness, trash.”

So here’s my fake horse, under which is some fake haiku, with a bad-pun title to boot.

equinimityku

this is not a horse
an artist ought LOOK at a horse
before he draws one