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Red Stripes

Stripes and stripes and stripes and stripes of red and red and red and red.

I can’t see it.

Covering walls, poured over floors, etched onto ceilings, laid on top of anything and everything in sight. Stripes and stripes. Red and red.

Everywhere.

Everything is covered.

Stripes. Red. Everything.

Look. Look at it. It makes my eyes crazy. My brain can’t take it. Red. Stripes. Everywhere.

No matter where you look.

Red.

Stripes.

I’m going crazy.

I’m going insane.

I can’t look.

Give me something else to look at. Anything but RED . STRIPES. RED . STRIPES. AND STRIPES . AND RED .

And stripes.

How can you tell me I’m insane. What do you see? Red stripes everywhere. Tell me it doesn’t make you crazy. Tell me you don’t have to close your eyes after barely a few seconds of it.

I’m not crazy. This is normal. This is natural.

Red.

STRIPES !

SHOW ME SOMETHING ELSE !

Please.

When will it end?

No matter where I go these days. Everything covered in red stripes.

RED . STRIPES.

Stop it.

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