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Crumm

An anonymous artist had named the painting: 'Bertram Crumm' it was simply a depiction of a man trudging over a blank Landscape. No one had heard of this man, but this enigmatic fact alone was intriguing, and now he was perfectly framed. After many years an art critic tracked him down. Crumm claimed to be a meatpacker who worked in Allen Town, yet no one could see him as a meatpacker working in Allen Town. Some saw nobility in his gait and posture, some saw a furtive mindset, most declared emphatically that Crumm was definitely a poet! If we had known that Crumm had often confessed to his family that he loathed poetry and was indifferent to art in general then that landscaped/portrait would still be gathering dust in a Goodwill shop. However, a billionaire owns it now, and ironically, he also can't write a lick of poetry either.

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