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an eye, and more importantly, the only eye, really...

though sight catches glimpses of heavens: supple

breasts, green eyes perched over glass of whiskey,

swaying hips into and out of hell, lips... the burial

of God attended by the masses, where the Doors

were left unattended, those that enter into the

radiant hue...

...at the funeral Melania speaks of the Uncle

as the ridiculous one of the family, the painter, of

course... a youth spent drawing and looking up

girls skirts turns into small infamy in Buenos Aires,

before a fated decision to arrive to London with

numerous stints in legal and illegal forms of

gathering monies: ice cream truck driver, pyramid

scheme manager, death insurance finagler, a one

time potential hitman faltered: unable to gather a

gun with correct bullets, apparently... though, the

tears still fall, his long time girlfriend, loudly

speaks in Italian a poem, whispered Melania, a

poem her Uncle would recite whilst painting:

...the wounds never heal in the canvas of all

this...

...our colours repeat, until a new hue arrives

at dawn...

...Melania seems annoyed that these words

were spoken so loudly and right up next to the

casket by a woman all the family considered his

Mistress, with her Mother nicknaming her La

Whore — the red dress tightly fitted against

breasts, grey hair long and bewitching as if a

shadow of a giraffe, burning in the linger of the

Priest speaking words of good news... before the

eulogy disrupted by old rotund Argentinian

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