Rockin at 83

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Hearts are all red from what I know. I heard that sweet bananas are always yellow. Grass is green from what cartoons show. Is it true that there are only seven colors in a rainbow?
In school, my teacher once told me, Darling, oranges are orange, you cant let them be Blue or violet, was teacher angry with me? I used my brown crayon, but teacher still kinda looked unhappy.
My classmates love to draw and color many many things, Frogs and flowers and fairies with wings, Horses and castles, queens and kings. But they all seem to us


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I remember you sharing me with your brother when you were ten. I was ok with Michael Jordan posters and a pink lampshade. But the striking of puberty arrived so soon and I sighed as he gathered his stuff and left me with you.
The agony. You painted the entirety of my walls purple and I cringed at those flowery bed sheets and curtains.
I remember your myopia, under construction with Nancy Drew
under yellow light. In the middle of the night you wailed and waited for angels. My mom hates me, you would cry. If only I had an arm to consol
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"Ebony and Ivannee living in perfect harmony"
-Ebony and Ivory by Paul McCartney
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