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It Has Come To My AttentionIt has come to my attention
that people like me
are generally not welcome in fairy tales.

It's the talking birds that do it.
The minute a sparrow shows up to pipe a direful warning
it's all over
down at the first hurdle
done

The body in the fifty-fathom well
will have to wait
the old woman turned into a hare
the murdered mother in the juniper tree
as I whip out my Sibley guide and look for the entry
with the fieldmark labeled capable of human speech.

For this crime
I have been accused of a failure of wonder
of having chained up my inner child and sent her
to work in the salt mines.

But the truth
(if you really want to kn

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Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Surreal

So I started a painting and it looked absolutely nothing like this and I got it roughed out and laid down some color and said "This is not right."

So I started another painting that had some elements of this, but also a bunch of rocks and other crap, and it was utterly and totally wrong and I painted rocks for three hours and said "This is not right and also I hate it and also I am a terrible artist and this is horrible and awful and I am going to go become a warthog farmer and never paint again."

So then I did this painting and said "Right. Okay. That was it. Whew. What was I thinking with that other thing, anyway?" and canceled the shipment of warthogs and all was right with the world.

There has got to be an easier way to get a painting right, but I have yet to find it.

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