The Umbrella Revolution

A body wrapped in a blue tarp was laid out on the lawn of a house. Mourners sat around it after the ambulances left and sang dirty songs, a fleeting contagion of emotion spreading from one person to another. There’s no point in pretending these things didn’t happen. On that sunny afternoon a man without a shadow appeared to be watching from under an open umbrella. It’s considered a bad omen when the umbrella in a dream is open. Hey! No problem! Van Gogh painted a picture of underbrush full of sun and life just hours before he committed suicide.