AFTER BASHO. 1988.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988
13.4 x 8.3cm, 1pp. Artist’s card with a parody of the famous Haiku by Basho – here updated to being an attack on Michel Blum. The poem now reads:

old pond
frog pontificating
plop

The “frog” here becomes a charged none-too-acceptable reference to Blum’s French nationality and the “plop” infers failure or something more scatalogical.
Not Finlay’s finest hour although he use of the word “frog” was probably marginally more acceptable in 1988 than now. VG+.