Starting with a line from Grand Finales

clutching a red watercolor hammy handprint clutching a patent clutch purse click back when cocktail rings playing nightclub by the basement bar dry bar crayon cigarette peeling the spit-damp label gold-painted rigatoni necklace puffed out belly man unknown unthought of daytime nightclub full of girls daddy longlegs ceiling stars cardboard rooms mosquito bite drunk mosquito flamenco dress clip-on hoops it was harder than it looked but we didn’t know too short was something anyone’s legs could be

I opened Susan Gubar’s Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists and found the phrase “clutching a red watercolor.” And wondered why fingerprints are always taken with black ink.