These teeth that snarl back at the pianist serve as the perfect match to his current mindset. This image of America as corrupt and angry and primal matches up with his fear and frustrations with the world.

This starving queen, or perverse, twisted version of America, has become clouded and corrupted. No longer serving as a comforting, supportive idea, she has changed from a protective image, like a dream catcher, to a mouthful of snarling, chattering teeth. This imagery evokes concepts of fear and pain and maniacal actions.

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The “fat squeeze” refers to the “master painter”, or metaphorically the bomber overhead, releasing the bomb, listening to it whistle to the ground as he flies away. As the pilot heads away from the drop site, he hears the inevitable eruption and destruction of human life as the bomb casts off black streaks of soot and destruction across the city.

Qwel is describing dark, ash-like sections of this piece of Graffiti he is staring at. Continuing with the theme of Hiroshima and Nagasaki references, these “piles of ash” are the after-effects of pillars of salmon pink and sweet corn yellow flames caused by the atomic bombings of Japan.

This line describes how the pianist is immobilized by his grief and frustration with the world. These heavy emotions have so scarred him, their presence is akin to deep, graphic scars left upon his body. He could either be immobilized in front of his piano, arms locked at his sides with his hands on the keys, back arched as he suffers over this music; or he may be immobilized with his arms arched behind his body, screaming out his agony.

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The pianist’s wife/significant other/mistress, laughs in the face of all the destruction and harm Hiroshima/Nagasaki has produced. The extent (reach) of the charred destruction of the bombs amuses her.

This line may come across as a critique of the American mindset of superiority and how the public turn a blind eye to corruption and unjust war. America has often been involved in wars over resources and goods under the guise of “terrorism” or a “threat to democracy worldwide”.