Five and Two

FIVE AND TWO

The weekends were blues and greens.

The weekdays, warm colors of the sun:

Evening reds,

And oranges;

Bright magenta

Maybe.

The weekends were

Film,

Bach,

Antique shops,

Smell of coffee,

Hamburgers.

Intense quiet.

Weekdays were

A delicate matter—

Eggshells everywhere—

Be sweet,

Hide (inside the dollhouse);

Tofu and brown rice.

Don’t ask too many questions.

I also had two first names.

One used on the weekend.

One used during the weekdays.

I wore blues and greens on weekends.

Red and orange were for weekdays.

Split parents divorced personality.

Cult during the week.

I wear a lot of black and grey.

My name is neither what it was before,

Nor my great weal, which

Is my passion for color.