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Picasso of Pain

by Ian Shaw July 26, 2021February 13, 2022

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Picasso of Pain

by Ian Shaw, Prison Journalism Project
July 26, 2021

<h1>Picasso of Pain</h1>
<p class="byline">by Ian Shaw, Prison Journalism Project <br />July 26, 2021</p>
 
<p>I try to paint a picture<br />of the future in my head.&nbsp;<br />The only colors given<br />are a thousand shades of red.&nbsp;<br />On the canvas of the mind,<br />a portrait of hate,<br />resembling me<br />and my ill fate.<br />A Picasso of pain,<br />the DaVinci of death,&nbsp;<br />that sweet release&nbsp;<br />of life and stress.<br />I paint a picture<br />of the future in my head.<br />Canvas of the mind<br />is where I lay dead.</p>


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I try to paint a picture
of the future in my head.
The only colors given
are a thousand shades of red.
On the canvas of the mind,
a portrait of hate,
resembling me
and my ill fate.
A Picasso of pain,
the DaVinci of death,
that sweet release
of life and stress.
I paint a picture
of the future in my head.
Canvas of the mind
is where I lay dead.

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Ian Shaw

Ian Shaw is a writer of morbid or horror poetry and short stories and is currently working on self-publishing a collection of his writings. He is incarcerated in California, and publishes under a pen name because he feels that his incarceration hurts his chances of being a successful writer.

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