In 2002, Will Harper interviewed Frank for a feature article about Frank to be published in the East Bay Express. Watch the video below to discover why Frank wrote this poem ….


Ansel Adams was no Will Harper
by Frank Moore, Wednesday, January 01, 2003

Ansel Adams was no Will Harper
Never could be!
Hey, he barely became Ansel Adams!
Took him about 25 years
To get started
Being Ansel Adams!
Before that
He was
That fuck-up Ansel
That drop-out
That reject
That hopeless kid!
Thank god
For rich pappy!

No,
Ansel Adams was no Will Harper!

But then again
Ansel wanted to be a piano player
But some fool
Must have told Ansel
He was no Jellyroll!
Some fool
Must have told Ansel
In this life
You have to channel
Your creativity
Down into
YOUR TALENT!
Never mind
What you enjoy!
Never mind
Ansel wrote too!

Everyone knows
Each person
Is a limited soul
Not able
To plunge
Into the unlimited
Ocean of free play,
But has to be content
In the wading pool
Of genre
Of TALENT

No, Ansel Adams was no Will Harper

But then
I’m no Ansel
I’m no Will
I’m just Frank
I have to live with that!
DARN!


You can read the article, “Touching Our Private Parts” by Will Harper, along with subsequent related articles and letters to the editor published in the East Bay Express here:
https://www.eroplay.com/ebx/index.html