Rain, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889


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Rain,  Vincent Van Gogh, 1889  

Rain beats swiftly on the Ghost Town patio

The clowns and jesters have gone

Home to beer and pickles

She tastes sweet cotton candy in sleet and rain

Perhaps hardened jawbreakers will hit her bare skin

Her naked left foot grazes the floor

A splinter pierces her rough padded heel

She winces

Wondering if she will always be in the rain

A princess trapped on a patio

Screwdrivers pounding her head, swelling her stomach for vomit

The mountains so far away from Cotton Candy Rain

As they have always been

She’s frightened to run to their hard, padded feet

Instead, she will eat the rain

Plump like a turkey, she thinks

The forest by the mountain haunts her

There might be pleasant, crisp steams of water, chilling and sensual

But she is so afraid the leaves on the trees

Will cover Cotton Candy Rain

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