Jack Balas, 2024; PRE-DAWN, NEW YEAR'S DAY (#2530); India inK on paper, 22x30 inches

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Pre-dawn, New Year's Day, 2024, and I wake to find a very naked young man asleep next to me. He's really strong and bites my wrists when I finally grab both his arms and drag him out across the living room, where my Mom (?) holds open the door. I'll let him figure out where he left his clothes, but soon enough out the window he's in jeans and a t-shirt talking with a couple of landscapers. I'd tell you more but I wanted to watch sunrise and that's when my alarm went off. WHAT CAN ALL THIS POSSIBLY MEAN??

(Small head says: "You call this a happy ending?")