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Here is one about Mark Rothko.

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Maroon over black on red.

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And it's a wee installation
and tiny, little, 10 line.

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Okay, it's for Mark.

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"Threshold."

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"In the fall of
'58 at the Whitney,

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trying to escape a hated
critic he missed the doorway

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and put both hands
through the plate glass.

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An after image of the black
grave forecast in red.

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Maroon, this is the light
through closed eyes.

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The dark corona fraying the
edges of the slammed door.

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Turbulence playing in
the face of it all.

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The black ingots
made from absence.

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The red drawn from life.

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Hard lesson.

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She stood at his burnt
windows until she

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saw herself answered
in their dark

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the way glass gets blacked
at night, the lighted room.

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She went home pulled the
curtains, drew a red bath.

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Exit.

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On the wall of the studio on
East 69th his last Canvas.

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A large unfinished
study in reds.

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On the floor, exsanguination
via the brachial artery.

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6 foot by 8.

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Black on red.

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Unframed.

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Signed by the artist in
the crook of his arm."

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