

Vignette 20.
I’m trying on your green
relaxed and fresh
You’re wearing my light purple
Already more feminine
With your grown-up pink.
Watch out!
Too much of my purple will make
you
irritable
impatient
I see it in your
clenched jaw
yeah excessive green
Is making me
lazy hazy crazy.
this pace of painting
tires me out
Can we switch back
our color
signatures?
We emerge from
a little matrix
our faces to the wall
we paint
our backs to our viewers
like priests
in the old Latin Mass.
We don’t wish to be seen.
W E A R E N E V E R A P A R T L Y O V E A N D A R T S E R C B M U V W E N R U N E G Q N W D D U C T O P V E N Y A Q K Q G J H X M N J I T M R I A T F X D B Z E V R K A T A F I Z I V K R U H G X Y T M M G X D D J M W R S U U B X L Q K G K A H L N Z Y Q V Q L W O V N D X R K R G H C A K L V F V K I C B S M G P Q U G H P B K W D U V J Q J Y N E W R F M S D Y A E X S Z Z R C Z P C X J L J M F K R K Z T Y Y U F D Y Y M I Q P Q L A Q K J L G X B Y C L K S S J S V S H F A I X Z A K G I H Y O W D D E R V S B J W R M M Q X P V G G R E P M W V D R U S Y E X E V I B H Z K A M A L F Q H E M F O X Y C E I O G M R C J H E S D R T V J N R Q B Q G P J D Q B G U T K L B U E B G N D B N C L K B C B Z Y Q V R M P P B P B G V S N Q Q S P B M C V Q H J J J H T I K Q Y L F W G P R Z W B Q K N M N N E S K F G K
AIMEE BELLA BETH CAROL COURTNEY JAMES PAUL PHAME
