If time restarts they
may present a
possible future, but in
this tableauxed moment
only the music
captures him.

Mark Young's poem stands by itself as a poem. with reference to the painting (I read the poems on Series Magritte before I check out the painting), the poem becomes an interpretation. I don't know Magritte's work well, recall that Jeff Beck's 2nd album bore a Magritte (was it apple head man?). I think of RM like Escher, as in: whoa, that's pretty whack! Magritte's both weird and compelling. this painting is not just a little disturbing, not as goofy as some of his works. Magritte's more dreamlike than nightmarish but so very odd.