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I wrote on top of drawings often in 2004. I was paying a lot of attention to colors and details, listening and absorbing, that I wasn’t going to get in the drawing so I thought writing about those things right on the drawing was an interesting way to do it. I wrote stream of consciousness, not trying to be grammatically correct. Transcript follows each drawing.
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| The Reading Woman |
The reading woman with the nice forehead and small glasses and the wonderful ear and the revolutionary looking boyfriend and the blue t-shirt and the thin hands and fingers contemplating an article on common language while a silly girl laughs in the distance and her purse just sits there looking smart at Barnes & Noble on Prom Night for Chelsea and Carolina at Union High on a cool April night after a week of wicked weather including tornadoes and gardening in Tulsa, OK.
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| The Classy Student |
The classy student studying with grey eye shadow and glimmery lips while her boyfriend, who looks young and too young for her reads a magazine with 3 bug bites on his left ankle in a row looking like a constellation and she uses a blue and red pen and huge earrings, the biggest I have ever seen with her left hand and very small delicate fingers with no polish in Norman, Oklahoma on a summer’s night that threatens to rain while the girls behind her wear red sooner shirts and read and talk about the young star who is too thin and I draw instead of read the manual of the class I am here for while I catch a bright pink purse pass by a tall guy sitting in yellow.
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| The Chunky-Haired Woman |
The woman with 10 colored markers and some paper she is highlighting with chunky hair with lots of highlights in it and sun coming through the window highlighting her cheek and shirt that has pink highlights in it among white and big lips with frosted lipstick that is sparkly and has highlights of the same color pink while I wait for the agent to be done so she can give me my new ticket and voucher to take a later flight and still make it into Seattle for the conference that I am going to in July after my Uncle’s funeral yesterday in Ft. Worth that I drove to with Linda the night before and visited with long-lost cousins and Aunt Jean.
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| The Ugly Woman |
The ugly woman with the ugly words coming out of her dark mouth while she stared at nothing with her glaring eyes and heart while all around her love lingered and waited until she finished but she never did on that September night.
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| The Two Woman |
The woman with more hair who could do flamenco curls on her jaw if she wanted talking hesitantly to the friend with the thin eyes and arched eyebrows and lower lip that jutted out who was judging her friend’s mascara as too thick and dark (but I liked it) about why her boyfriend won’t commit and not knowing what to do and how she wakes up at night sure that someone is b
reaking in and she wonders if she should get a boob job to be more sexy for him and if that would help and her friend says maybe.
reaking in and she wonders if she should get a boob job to be more sexy for him and if that would help and her friend says maybe.
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Drawings by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
