painting lesson
she told me to make the skies bluer
and the setting sun orangier
I told her I would have to start all over
no you don’t she said
here let me show you
and she took over the canvas
the brushes & the paints
proceeded to turn my mediocre
landscape of sea & sun & clouds
into something beautifully alien
october two thousand twenty-three
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