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Colour Me

or. Synesthesia: why I is pink or. U is blue

By Scott BentleyPublished 5 years ago 1 min read
"Colour Me" by Scott Bentley

or. Synesthesia: why I is pink

or. U is blue

or. Do you hear red

In screaming?

Distortion sounds like crimson

Guitars sound soaked in blood

or. Hear the red

Of lips barred by bright white

Hard bone,

or. The pink

Bri-neon synth of keyboards?

Colour me your colour, baby

I know who you are

Or. know the fire smoke orange

Of bass?

or. Do you hear blue

Brushed drums

Better than I do, more blue

Than I know,

or. Hear jazz blue? A blue

I am consoled lives beyond me

or. Is listening to the sounds of gold

Brass like the seeing sky saturated?

How do I

or. You bear it?

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About the Creator

Scott Bentley

Scott Benteley is a curator for the Gamut literary series and an editor for Clamor. His writing and art are forthcoming from yehaw and have appeared in Submergence, Vote the Earth, and elsewhere.

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