masquerade


from the ABC set ФФФФ Selected Poems: 1989 - 2009

Masquerade

You paint me white
You paint you black
Then scream like hell
That you under attack

You paint you white
You paint me red
Woke on the morn
All my children were dead

You paint me white
You paint you pink
Point a finger
And put up a stink

You paint you white
You paint me blue
Watched the paintbrush
Knew what to do

You think you paint me white
You paint you green¦
But it isn't paint
I threw paint stripper in.

And when the paint had peeled away
I looked, you looked
And we both seemed
gray-ish

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