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in a violent explosion, and sunsets had nothing to
do with itIt was mostly black and blue, the
color of bruises, and when it was done, my left
arm ached from the exerciseMy hand was
splattered with paint all the way to the wrist
The finished canvas reminded me a little of those
noir paperback covers I used to see back when I
was a kid, the ones that always featured some
roundheels dame headed for black chanel tote hellOnly on the
paperback covers, the dame was usually blond and
twenty-twoishIn my picture, she had dark hair
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and looked on the plus side of fortyThis dame
was my ex-wife
She was sitting on a rumpled bed, wearing nothing
but a pair of blue pantiesThe strap of a
matching bra trailed across one legHer head was
slightly bent, but there was no mistaking her
features; I had caught her BRILLIANTLY in just a
few harsh strokes of prada messenger black that were almost like
Chinese ideogramsOn the slope of one breast was
the picture's only real spot of brightness: a rose
tattooI wondered when she'd gotten it, and why
Pam wearing ink seemed as unlikely to me as Pam
racing a dirt-bike at Mission Hill, but I had no
doubt whatever that it was true; it was just a
fact, like Carson Jones's Torii Hunter tee-shirt
There were also two men in the picture, both naked
One stood at the women rolex window, half-turnedHe had a
perfectly typical body for a white middle-class
man of fifty or so, one I imagined you could see
in any Gold's Gym changing room: poochy stomach,
flat little no-cheeks ass, moderate man-titsHis
face was intelligent and well-bredOn that face
now was a melancholy she's-almost-gone lookA
nothing-will-change-it lookThis was Max from
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Palm DesertHe might as well have been wearing a
sign around his pasha cartier neckMax who had lost his father
last year, Max who had started by offering Pam
coffee and had ended up offering her moreShe'd
taken him up on the coffee and the more, but not
all the more he would have givenYou couldn't see all of it, but what you
could see was a lot more naked than his ass
The other man leaned in the doorway with his
ankles crossed, a position that pressed his thighs
together and pushed his considerable gucci boston bag package
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