The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

