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The Angry Artist

Ron Richmond

A weary artist
is painting in a waterless beach
as birds steal away
the clouds and scenery,
leaving nothing but a blank canvas.

“Why is the landscape vanishing?”
he cries to a gull
swooping down to haul away
another slice of the sky.

The gull laughs,
“Another artist down the shore
has paid us well to relocate
the sea, the sun, the shells and such.”

“And you’ll leave me with this nothing,
this empty space?”
Yells the first artist.

“Why yes,” states the gull,
“and by the look of your canvas,
you’ve painted it quite well.”

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