She drew cartoons with wry captions.
She built sculptures from stuff

she rescued from dumpsters. She painted
the trees that were my childhood

safety net. She populated her world
with brightly colored flowers. 

Sometime along this timeline, she stopped
believing. Stopped thinking what 

she did mattered to the world.
Stopped living. 

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