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Jealousy
August 8, 2010
Envy's bedroom walls aren't green
aren't battlefield camouflage
or an immaculate lawn.
They aren't orange with downfall
like a leaf preparing to plunge
or a home soon to be ash.
They aren't yellow with joy
like the brightest marigold
or the jackpot winner's riches.
No, they're smeared pink
Flushed with jealousy
like a nursery rose strewn away
or a brick worn to smoothness.
It's the color of wanting to be red
to be a wound well tended to
to be a fire hose saving lives
but not quite getting there.
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