IT WAS A HOLIDAY AND THE SUN SHONE UNBLEMISHED
Michael Ives
so the children disguised themselves as thoroughly as to provoke a fear in others they themselves could not begin to understand even if that beginning lay in an innocent application of paints and the panicking guards they dealt their heavily-sleeved blows to the oils the powdered bisthumic hues and codling moth binders the children concocted these with no assistance but the wild stochastic vindictiveness of possibility and with equal vindictiveness as their excitement crested the paints found a way into their pores according to their unwitting chemic facility the more the guards beat them the truer the disguise became the guards beating them especially so under a sun shining without blemish confounded the real and the play disguise and disguised into an undifferentiated mass of perfect light that of course the guards beat them they were guards after all who else were they going to beat