Prep the auction house
Cut the wood
Nail it together
Stretch the canvas
Ignore the untouched purity
The beauty without paint
The chain of years of labor and pain that went into that canvas
All the bright and terrible colors that made that white
Splash a coat of black
Splash a little water on it
To prep it for drying out later
Then orange
Then silver
Then brown
Unsellable, splatter red
Lots of it
Rip it to shreds
Sow it together
Rip it again
And again
Hang years of work and suffrage on three nails
Sell at the auction house
Print reprints
Sell again and again
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