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Basquiat

by: Don Byron

Basquiat is named after the great Haitian-American painter, a brother who knew high art things he wasn't supposed to know, and ended up in high places where he wasn't supposed to be, while the people in those places tried to pretend they didn't think that way. I wish he'd lived longer.

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