This was painted from a photograph
in which I stood, smiling nicely,
but she painted me out (or rather,
never painted me in), so now you know
what the Columbia River would look like
without me smiling in the foreground.
Allright, so I'm a little overweight--
Hey! Who did almost all the driving,
huh! (I guess this is a painting
about how much the Columbia River
doesn't miss me.)