blues

blues

 

thin layer broken,

I’m drowning in your aftermath.

 

all the reds in my head

have gone cold and clammy.

 

damn me!

I’m frozen from the meat

to the bone!

 

turn blue!

like a choking victim!

blue!

like a new bruise!

blue!

like the hypnopompic shirttails

of dreams.

 

children scream

from a school bus headed for a brick wall,

short coffins hide behind a prayer of ice.

lost in a blizzard rolling in from my guts

where permafrost slides aside to reveal:

 

blue!

like a gun barrel.

blue!

like a baby bonnet.

blue!

like a frostbitten angel

in freefall.

 

nobody calls from the slow-roast mountaintop,

they just drop meat scraps to, we, mongrels below.

slow-mo manna drifts like zombie snowflakes

that break as spiked vases on my outstretched tongue.

and, my lungs collapse in the minor key of truth turned

 

blue!

like the devil’s eyes.

blue!

like a whispered curse.

blue!

like hanged man kicking

at flames.

 

blue!

like your favorite song!

blue!

like your faded jeans!

blue!

 like love’s shadow

slipping into the past.

 

you took every other hue,

dragged them away like trash

to whatever disaster you’ve

crashed into:

 

and,

all I have left

is blue.

 

 

 

Reviews

[KimLove "The Beautiful ..]

That was really pretty cool to turn all that emotion into the shade of blue. There is a song by a Group called "Bonepony" that would compliment this write quite well. YouTube it it's called P.S.O.B. trust me. I enjoyed this vey much and can relate. xo

[Robin]

open- E , glass slide blues

sing it ..

[OT]

ooo very nice i love the blue refrain almost - the play on colours - "blue!
like the hypnopompic shirttails
of dreams." and "like a frostbitten angel
in freefall." in particular! blue's not so bad! haha great work as alway SK!

[Kenneth The Poet]

You forgot the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. I'm kidding, I think this poem and blue is my favorite color too. You had me at the blues.