Paint By Numbers

Attempted paint by numbers, but it cheats with letters that mix in unexplainable hues, distorting, desecrating - I’m complaining. Not at all lavender in the sky, but peach. It bobs at eye-level. I try to slather it with a more acceptable color, then swim underwater. That color, likewise betrays, lies, cannot sway me to keep this set of paints nor its decrepit cardboard. So I have no idea how to paint with instructions - it ain’t but a distraction, a muse gone wrong - brush doesn’t belong in my hand. Perhaps I will pull yarn through a loom and let a flower or such bloom; or poesy a catastrophe…