"I Will Not Buy (Homage to JB II)" confronts the viewer immediately with text as image, language as refusal, and the quiet power of repetition as a conceptual device. Created in 2018, Jim Kempner's lithograph transforms a simple declarative phrase into a meditation on consumer culture, artistic agency, and the legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose own work mined language, signage, and social critique with restless urgency. The repeated inscription recalls the punitive schoolroom exercise, a ritual of compelled writing meant to reinforce submission, yet here the phrase enacts the opposite energy, a deliberate, even defiant, act of withholding. Kempner redirects that charged repetition toward something more complex, inviting collectors to sit with the irony embedded in the work's very existence within an art market context. The lithograph is rendered with the crisp graphic authority that the medium demands, and Kempner handles its tonal range and compositional rhythm with a sure hand. At 57.2 by 76.2 centimeters, the work commands attention without overwhelming a wall, making it a focused and intellectually rich presence in a domestic or institutional setting. The piece is hand-signed, affirming its standing as a finished, considered work rather than a reproduction. Offered through Dru Arstark Fine Art, this is an opportunity to acquire a work that rewards sustained looking, functions as a pointed conversation piece, and connects meaningfully to one of contemporary art's most enduring dialogues about value, refusal, and the written word.