12/8
Sonnets From Other Lives: Hugh

In my day we didn’t have no color—
the whole damn world was all in black & white.
We didn’t care none—didn’t know another
way of bein. I tell you when I
first saw red well I was feeling blue
about the hues that we’d missed all that time
& how you can’t trust anything as true
if you can’t believe your very eyes.
Felt like I’d been someway somehow cheated--
that everything I knew was all a lie—
& everyone & me had been mistreated—
tho I know I coulda seen it if I tried
but I didn’t try because I didn’t know.
I guess I was just waitin t’be told.