that's good, Gary. Pumpkin is American... yes! apple pie is British though,
too. Nice to get back to the poetry. You missed a crazy Pennine week
bw
SallyE
on 20/2/03 10:25 pm, Gary Blankenship at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> The Secure Selection of Colors
>
> (orange alert a lighter shade of brown)
>
> Tangerine is too red,
> a reminder of the height of the Cold War
> when apocalypse loomed
> as large as a Texas ruby grapefruit
> ninety miles from the coast.
>
> Peach too pale
> to hold the fear we feel;
> beet too blood dark
> to allow us to continue our lives
> as if nothing had happened
> for they've won if we don't
> go on
> as if nothing has happened.
>
> Pumpkin is as American
> as apple pie, home-grown,
> honest,
> if we ignore the nagging doubt
> we squashed the pumpkin-eaters
> and no longer can afford green peppers
> let alone yellow.
>
> (orange fades to gray)
>
> Feb CE Chaffin, Celebrations and Blessings at:
> http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html --- Writer's Hood at
> http://www.writershood.com/... Poets for Peace.... ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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