Favorite Color Poem

Favorite Color by Jay Davis

Mom,
I wish I knew your favorite color.
The only one of Gods some(prenominal) crayons that gets you to sit up straighter.
To unbraid your spine from a rotary egg infested headboard.
Your five children sit
campfire cylinder style rough playing guessing games about it.
I bet its red
Like a sea Ive never seen
solely hear quite often in your voice recent at night.
If it is,
I entrust strip my skin finish off my body. Bare crimson flesh.
Im sure youd look at me more often
If I was the color that makes you smile.
hardly maybe its blue.
A sky light tint that can only be achieved by swallowing the saltiest sea
I will drown in the Pacific Ocean for a coddle on my corpse cheek
because I often forget you capture lips.
Only reminded when the moon gets home before I do they bite.
Sting like thunderclaps and you are oblivious to this.

Tell me its black.
I will have no problem with rend out these weak strands of hair
And stitching them to the left side of your chest
So you can feel your pulse in my scalp.
Except I know that you were never one to wade in the dark.
The leaves lily-white as my next option.
If this is in fact your favorite color
I will be forced to Novocain myself speechless.




Pull my dentition one by one out of my mouth and into my palm
fist full of smiles that I usually only bless tranquillize with.
I have a low tolerance for pain
and masochism would be worth it.

You love on a grayish scale.
Like a schizophrenic paraplegic
Is it because your seven siblings stripped the rainbow from your throat.
distributively draining a different color from the sky in your sound.
A shaky squeak left in a scraped up voice box
I can barely hear.
I want you to know
That there is Technicolor lining the insides of my elbows
So hug me, mom.
nominate that you like me long enough to capture the ultraviolet in my flesh.
Suffocate me
Caved in shoulders and a rising bosom
Squeeze the flavour out of me so that you can see rainbows again
Dont see it as homicide
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