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Created on: April 11, 2007 Last Updated: May 14, 2007
Crayola box
You colorful fool
How you enrapture me with your magenta and ocean blue
How you take my construction paper
And fill it with your colorful wonder
Your fluorescent pink and royal blue
I drew a sea green space man with you
From a red orange Mars
With a burnt sienna space dog
Who had a purple bark
And when the tips of my colors
Were dull and sad
You sharpened them
You brought them back to life
You my night in shining silver armor
You who breathes yellow into my white
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