My No.2 brush with soft synthetic bristles

and Eleonora Pucci’s No.2 brush with the same

type of bristles is coincidental by comparison.

Hers is equipped with a utilitarian hole running through

the handle at the northern provinces same as mine, except

Pucci's handle is rounded off like a decimal to its nearest whole

number, whereas mine comes to a point which is considered to be

a hazardous implement when used around the kids.

It’s true I could take my brush to an expert woodcrafter

to round-out the handle's tip, but then my brush would become

a mere copy of Pucci’s brush, and that's something I don’t want.

Also, another minor difference is that my brush is used to clean

the fissures running across the keyboard of my ancient MacBook

as it sits in Fall River, apartment 503, whereas Pucci’s brush cleans

Michelangelo’s “David” standing in the Galleria dell’Accademia

in Florence, Italy.