• Imperfect circles of red, intentionally painted on the walls--
    it's a masterpiece, the new Renaissance smile, it will be known
    a c r o s s the w o r l d as the most cruel yet magnificent picture
    S P L A T T E R E D on the white wall of a small apartment on Market St.

    If you look closely, the paint is shaped like a childish face,
    just a large, uneven circle with two dots and a squiggly line.
    Though it's not happy, but it's not sad. The squiggly lines face upward
    but the eyes are slanted and perhaps unintentionally made dots of paint are

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    out, is it crying? Is the picture really telling a thousand words?
    Was the mystery artists in pain and filled with sorrow,
    insane perhaps, smiling and crying frantically?
    Though when the light breeze picks up,

    your nose prickles.
    "Is someone bleeding?"