[message to] the fluent chameleons
we are, all of us
fluent chameleons
practicing our body
language under a
mercenary sun
drunk and hapless
behind the curtains
of another life we
seek a power greater
than color
we are told at the
equinox there will be
fireworks and rooftops
but the invitation is a
little hole in the
worst part
of ownership
where our shoulders
either wear shoes
or send sleep like
a postcard to a
long lost reservoir
where nobody is
making coffee for
the dead and the
living are getting
angry like cameras
whose colors lurk
outside the very idea
of colors; we are
all of us fluent
beyond syllables painting
mostly mercenary suns
because the last shade
on the palette is
simply within.
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