Love’s Fondness For Yellow
I grew up in a yellow house
in the middle of a cornfield
refusing to listen to Big Bird
and being unable to use the word
‘jaundice’ convincingly
in a sentence
so it makes sense
you sexy sentence
that your hair
haunted by blondness
should remind me of
the barns
in which I once roamed………….
you are the yellow
and love has a fondness
for yellow
and in this case scenario
I am The Love!
some of the best things share your color
Captain Kirk’s uniform
The Comedian’s smiley faced
blood splattered button
The Fracking Sun!
yellow contains taught powers
yellow designs its own oxygen
yellow survives its dead stars
Mayakovsky’s shirt was fucking yellow!
like the curtains in this little
basement apartment
yellow is the color of fire
burning in a little possessed girl’s eyes
in a poster that hangs
above the toilet
[bit about urine being also yellow deleted
by early 1900’s Russian censors]
my love for you is yellow!
and love is yellow!
and I love you
like yellow!
with all yr tattoos
You’re my favorite album
and fondest memories
from those dark days
after the color had left me
if you ever left Chris Martin
Chris Martin would write a
song about your leaving
and I will sing that song to you
on your birthday
because it’s about goddamn time
for Chris Martin
to get over this shit
and move on
(pt 3 of an unpublished 4 part poem called Ft Vending Machine)
Multiverse Johnson 