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[Here are the prizes.]

[Behold his ribbons, his golden fleece, a mounted bear, the heads of his foes stacked in descending order.]

[Scalps.]

[Art is a thing he wins.]

[The artist does not include the lifeless meals between each laurel berry. He burnt his toast, he forgot his sweater, he noticed her lipstick matched the piping on a new handbag. He did not go to Norway.] 

[The artist will exhibit only his Saturday nights.]

[When he wasn’t waiting for you.]