From Winamop.com
Pictures At An Exhibition
by Yash Seyedbagheri
Friends comment on my apartment.
Where are the family photos?
Questions dance across empty spaces.
I buy picture frames with stock photos. A smiling mother and father. Older sister with cat-eye glasses.
This is a family that hasnt been torn apart by drink. Wanderlust. Reinvention. Father radiates control. A realtor? Mother could be a teacher, beatific, wise. Sister, an adorkable nerd, named Betty.
Normalcy taunts daily, interspersed with ghosts of arguments. Shattered glasses. Fights over flatscreen TVs. CD collections. Everything fought over except children.
I smash the picture frames against the wall. Tear stock photos, piece by piece.
Fragments remain.
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