I’ve
heard yellow like
You
were a jaundice baby
Small
canary
Pinched
under purple light
Takes
the yellow from feather
But it
stayed on skin
Heard
yellow like
Pages
of white names
Thick
as your waist
We sit
on them at picnic tables
Yellow
like
Butter
like
Mustard
on
Wonder
Bread hot dogs
And
pee-pee in your Coke
And little
girls calling
Frying
pan face
“Can’t
be smart cause she smart,
She
smart cause she
Asian”
We
heard it at my second-grade
Spelling
yellow bee
I won
on America
Yellow
Like
pencils
Mom
made me keep sharp
That’s
how you got good grades.
Heard
yellow like
That Coldplay
song
Country
boy used to sing
Senior
year
My teenage
prom dress
Yellow
like
Rose
of Texas and
Red
river beds and
Sun,
yellow-like
His
belly cause
He
dumped me cause
His
Daddy said,
“She
ain’t white, son.”
Heard
yellow like
Piss
and whiskey on Church Street
College
boy fever
He
calls out
Lucy
Liu
Fresh
off boat
I
stayed yellow like
Lemons
pressed
Against
teeth
I
wanted yellow like
Slow
down,
Like
quarantine
Rise
of bile
Like
stop the cholera
But
me, colorless
Daffodil
heart and
Wasp
nest wax moons
Hanging
over me
Yellow
like
Dropsy
Drops
if I, traitor, if I,
Deny
it.
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