'are'? Bill
you begin. I'd recommend trying to find William Gass's On Being Blue; a book length investigation...
Doug
On 2013-10-01, at 3:07 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Blue
>
> Nothing blue is mowed.
> No food is truly blue.
> We reserve blue for sky,
> jeans and, collectively,
> pockets of existential pain.
>
> There is no blue in Russia,
> only words for its shades.
> Sea is said to be blue
> but only in the deep
> and unstably so.
>
> Pure blue is unmixed,
> falls between violet
> and green. Males mis
> -pick green from blue
> more than females do.
>
> Whole cultures don't share
> the western blue. Korean,
> Thai, Japanese, Dakota Sioux,
> have no separate words
> for green and blue.
>
> So deep in the Americas
> and in much of Asia
> blue means go
> and - slap my stanza
> blue lawns are mowed.
>
> bw
> 30.09.13
>
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