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  • Exploding Pixels
    By Oshadha (Year 10, Southland Boys' High School)

    I stare at it, fogged eyes, memories stinging; a headache nothing can heal
    a black and white photo, under a layer of dirt, unframed – a man, a woman, a child: me
    the untouched jagged ends from an old-styled printer, which made mum cry every night, alone
    the blending black and white pigments that made me think until my brain cells deformed my emotions…

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