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everybody wants to be somebody else3.10.10the boy painted his nails slowly deliberately- as though every brushstroke hung suspended between life and death his fingers were splayed across dusty floorboards inside a half moon of bottles, trapped in the shadows- his back aching from fifteen minutes crouched under the bed each nail whispered the ethereal music- of a different color, barely glimmering- in the dusky sun that crept under the dust ruffle red. orange. yellow. green. blue. but his fingertips twitched, on the final stroke and the bottle toppled; sending a wave of cobalt across the wooden slats like a permanent ocean and the boy's throat constricted as he looked down at his hand, because he knew even then that it was only the surface, and no artwork's perfection can mask the flaws of the maker; because even picasso never sold a painting or made a penny until after he died. |
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