By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 12 March 2000
An April Night in Austin
holding hands
buzzing slightly
from the beers we drank
in the pub
in the bowling alley
we stood on the sidewalk
on Sixth Street
across from Fat Tuesday's
and Bob Popular's
and watched the artist
create vivid fantasy portraits
of pyramids and planets like Everlasting Gobstoppers
in an inky sky
and I wondered how we would turn out,
if our fragile beginning
would bleed into a painting
a girl could
get lost
in
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