By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 4 March 1998

a piece of that hue

drawn into your world
 I'm just a mousy little 
   pencil sketch
   begging for your tempera
     give me some 
       blue, baby
    throw me some red
          destroy the lead
       that's in my head

 I said oh
  you're a rainbow
    I could use
    some of that
   I need your purple streaks
     and your orange
         splat

you're fat with color
   got much soul
  I could open 
    my mouth
  and eat you
     whole
 you could camp out in my bloodstream
    build a big ole fire
 paint dawn into my sky
      transform my black
     raped heart
into a glad screaming kaleidoscope

 I hope
  you've got 
 something to lend
   my friend
 oh I do
  I do
  I'm begging you
  for a piece of that
     hue