Hi Gary
|A wonderful piece. Just this: "If we ignore the nagging doubt we
squash[ed] the pumpkin eaters..." 1)keep the squash in the present
tense, otherwise it doesn’t make sense 2)I'm not sure I got the full
meaning of this line. Can you elaborate on it?
Tammara
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Subject: The Secure Selection of Colors
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)
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