pink;job

pink Job:

I had a girl who,

from a newborn child, loved pink.

So now I love pink. I have a pair

of pink pants. Some pink shoes.

A pair of pink Scooby Doo headphones (willed to me).

The neighbor girl wears her hair in

a pink bob.

Sometimes the outline of night is pink.

There was pink in my brother-in-laws casket.

The pathologist showed us

the model of the healthy pink  lung.

His was not that color.

The insides of 93 percent of the

vertebrates on the planet earth is pink .

I don't think I  like frogs much. But

don't they burrow in the mud and sand

in their neo-Darwinian mornings

with pink vertebrate on their sticky tongues.

I went to Washington DC with my folks

where the declaration of independence

was under a glass casing. The years had

turned the corners of the document pink.

Oh s**t! The dove bar swimming in this

tub of soil and excretory skin is slavishly

devoted

to washing me pink. Pink hospital gowns

are worn by the women who

bring  my towel.

Reviews

[Isabel25]

I have never been a fan of pink mainly because it is very gender oriented. But this poem made me see it in a different "pink" light. I have always loved the pink skies though. :)

And I didn't know there were pink caskets. Good one Dana...not bad for a newbie :P :P

[Cory Barrett]

Pink is the color of life, never before have it thought about it with convictions of death. There were quite a few points where i found myself stopping to stare a word down, simply because of the emotion it evoked.

(willed)


you just told a story with a word, killed me with that one.

[writing mojo]

my wife loves pink, but I don't think she understands the life you have touched or discovered behind such a hue..it just makes her smile when i remember her and how she loves to have a shower with anything reminded with the light hearted likeness of red..My favorite color is blue, not just any blue but sky blue, some call it Carolina blue, but to me in a dream it will always be sky blue..your a genius

[Gerry Legister]

Nice work, this takes me back into the neo-Darwinian mornings,

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"pretty in pink" an 80's movie kind of came to mind here...

we come out of a pink womb...in pinkish color...

and oh those frogs with the sticky tongues---

i'm tickled pink, reading this.