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fuchsia.
"The instructor said,
'Go home and write a page tonight.
And let tat page come out of you --
Then it will be true.'"


And here it is.
My life is fairly new,
my veins a little blue
although I am the colour fuchsia.
Fine spaghetti hair
and a narrow second pair of eyes
that help me see the colour red.

I can't quite explain
why I draw or sing or write --
or listen to the clickity-clack
of keys beneath my fingers.

I try to smile with a lava lamp glow
though it's been called a "mourner's grin,"
which is true
in a caramel candy sort of way.

Sometimes I fall into an endless oblivion
of -bling-daze-cradle-plummit-pop-
and the sleeping sparkle
of an unborn child
or a tear unfallen...
but then it does.

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