12-15-2013, 07:31 AM
Blue You
Not bluebird blue, but darker.
Blue like crawling crabs deep underwater,
or curving veins along a fat girl's thigh.
Deeper even than the ocean’s blue;
a life awash with abiding sorrow,
a life of woe, awry.
Blue to make the blues blue -
not sky blue or tattoo blue,
but true blue, with viridian
and alizarin with desire -
ultramarine infused with umber,
the darkest blue to which any blue aspires.
Blue you, blue of unmended hearts,
of deeply bruising bruises
the blue of morgues, the blue of monsters,
blue like that.
Blue you.
Not bluebird blue, but darker.
Blue like crawling crabs deep underwater,
or curving veins along a fat girl's thigh.
Deeper even than the ocean’s blue;
a life awash with abiding sorrow,
a life of woe, awry.
Blue to make the blues blue -
not sky blue or tattoo blue,
but true blue, with viridian
and alizarin with desire -
ultramarine infused with umber,
the darkest blue to which any blue aspires.
Blue you, blue of unmended hearts,
of deeply bruising bruises
the blue of morgues, the blue of monsters,
blue like that.
Blue you.