Yomi Ṣode

And I was just like, oh, this is really interesting.

But where does that take me?

And yeah, just to read this now.

About Hans, an uncle.

After Caravaggio's The Gypsy Fortune Teller.

She turned his hand on his dorsal side and with a razor made three incisions between his knuckles, tender enough to split the flesh without touching veins.

She coated his hands with pepper, filling the incisions in hands that dared not tremble, hands that knew little yet of suffering, hands she heard calling out to be sliced when his ears refused to listen.

The evening Uncle Banji stole money from his mother, he heard her chair rock back and forth, louder than usual.

Before he entered, he felt the blooming of his paws as he tried to explain.

And it was then that she turned his hands onto its back.

Then that she placed it over an empty pot of fire, telling him, stay still.

talking to him as the hot steam rose.

Did I raise you to be a thief?

The next poem is Fugitives.

there was the famous deal happened between Caravaggio and and and Renisho Tomasone over this girl that they really just like really really liked and you think this could be a conversation but the ego got the best of them they were like you know what we're gonna fight for her love um and this led to essentially one but one a loss of life

But also what was interesting about this situation was after this duel, after Renucio died, Caravaggio fled.

And one thing I was really trying to do in terms of arguments of the book was trying to draw parallels.

I know I was talking with my editor at the time.

And it just didn't make sense if there was nothing to argue against.

Otherwise, I'm just speaking about a specific time.