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13/07/2026

Em for maybe an hour we sat, she did not have to, but we sat together unscrambling famous paintings. her letters much neater than mine and in light blue rather than black. she guessed ‘the last supper’ right away. that helped us get everything else. i wore my hand-me-down boots that she said she liked and so i said i loved her braided hair- i did- i do and we found letter e finally. i messed up the order and her friend saw her and said hi, i told him my name and smile

The Mindstate: 1999

An outrageously raunchy, funk-riddled ride into the end of the world. Taine Knox By 1982, Prince had already excited, appalled, and amazed audiences with his equally-revolutionary, equally-risqué brand of funk-heavy pop music. He was lauded by his immense and undeniable talent, having played all of the instruments on his 1978 debut For You, for his hit-making abilities (1979’s “I Wanna Be Your Lover”) and especially for his remarkable (and nearly inhuman) rate of output. But

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