10. Masterpiece

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with nimble fingers,

he dipped the brush into his mind.

and painted his thoughts onto the canvas,

in a sea of broken rhymes.


his only escape;

painting every word he never said.

black-blue splotches over stark white paper,

in a sea of scarlet red.


and love?

it was a masterpiece.

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