hex code: #170f19;

Deep purple, bordering black:

When you mix red & blue, then attack

It with the void

Green values get overwhelmed

By a stronger case

Of solemnity

Toward non-visibility

Or secrecy that

I would say could be called

“Machiavellian” in nature

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We should’ve painted the bathroom

This color

Painted the kitchen

This color

I stain my life this color

In long strokes

And now I can’t even see it blush

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I wish my vinyls were

This color

My credit cards

This color

My throw pillows could be this color;

I would lay like

Sand settling on stones

I’d never have to make the bed

In the head that’s out to get me

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If she were to lay naked, I would hope

She would be a pool of this color;

Liquid erupting out in all directions

Infect my walls

Coil my clothes hangers

Don’t distract me,

Color corroborator

For you’d resemble the deepest dark

Of wine on lips that become

This color

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Iron sharpens iron and makes

This color

Redstarts sing and they sing

This color

I fall in the the river and the river’s

This color

The definition of dispossessed is

This color

Knocked out, dragged out, your bruises are

This color

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I like to think I know who I am.

But I don’t know who I’d like to be.

Until then I will only be, and see, and hear

This color.