I commissioned my artist friend 
to paint
a starlit evening on our 
nursery ceiling.
He struggled at first, pacing 
the room, 
obsessively scaling his 
ladder.  The job 
was beneath him, but he needed 
the money.
Something had to be done, so I 
burned 
his obscure punk cds into my 
computer, 
so he could listen to his music 
randomly 
shuffling and without 
interruption.  
He finished the very next day, 
but instead 
of the tranquil twilight I 
envisioned, I got 
a maelstrom brewing around a 
moon more  
menacing than an axe-wielding 
lunatic.  
I paid up, made the nursery our 
bedroom, 
and my wife and I have never 
slept better.
 
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