escape artist

painters and sculptors
and doorpeople, too,
and every musician,
author, ancient and new,
and actors, reciters,
filmmakers and crew,
burlesques and drag
from their crown to their shoe;
in pixel or 8-bit,
with or without glue,
handle or knob-turning,
steel-grey or clear view,
in multiple tone
or quaint rhythmic 3/2,
with eyes on the screen
to make bright or subdue;
no matter the form
that artists may take to,
remember, remember,
they've helped escape you.