Amarillo luz yellow lightsA Poem by Matthew DaallingThis poem is about a guilty pleasure that most drivers go through.
Yellow is the burn of accelerating white walls. Catching them and saving them in a box that exist in your rearview mirror. Never to be spoken of only to be celebrated. Breaks that antilock rob us of screeching tires that remind us of bank robbery getaways. The streets are glossy shimmering like something out of a Scorsese movie then suddenly the cruiser we didn’t see behind us hits the whaler Blair, the lights, turning yellow into the shiver. I feel down my spine. He passes me as if to say that’s right, sir. I can turn you yellow anytime I please with obstacles blocking psyche, slowly removed and replaced, yellow becomes a promise. I make myself never to take that light again, but memories are short and people are stupid. Amarillo my mother replies when I ask how to say yellow in Spanish. And what does that mean to you? What do you mean what does it mean? It’s just a color to us yellow means to be cowardly or to be an old mad dog lying under a house dying. While to others yellow lights mean speeding up and beating the red just like all true New Yorkers do just don’t tell anybody.
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Added on November 18, 2024 Last Updated on November 18, 2024 Tags: Yellow lights. Beating the red. AuthorMatthew DaallingBrooklyn, NYAboutI'm a writer. I have a great love for cinema. One of my favorite novelist is Keith Ablow. I believe poetry is a great way to set loose your emotions. To share with others your love for art. To find i.. more..Writing
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