I tried, twice, to paint this, we all want to chew a corner of this big thing he made, say, keep us alive, turquoise sky. Weeks before the bullet, all he painted was pink joy. A woman steps over scorched branches to lay a wreath for the patron saint of paper birds. Three boys tear bread for pigeons. The almond blossoms are rubbed white by years …
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