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PPC#4 Serenade to me at age 10 [181]
Serenade to me at age 10
You raised me in a world limited
to a small box of 8 stubby crayons,
a world defined by blue and red,
red and pink for girls and blue for me;
but Shelley loved dark blue velvet
and I loved Mickey's big box of wax,
drawing Percival's heraldic shield
in melon and sea green.
You dressed me in navy until I rebelled.
My color was orange but orange did not exist
for boys. I picked out clothes in brown and green.
I knew by 10 that I was different,
that no teacher could teach me how
to hold a pencil or tie my shoe laces.
I yearned for my own box of crayons.
Now I can afford the biggest box
and define myself any way I choose.
I look out at the same old Sun that set
a thousand yesterdays, marvel at the hues,
how burnt orange and bittersweet now streak
across a sea of midnight blue.
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