By Joshua Brown
All we see are colors. Crayolas clog our perception because the spectrum’s limited. Like art supplies offered to keep kids busy at dinner tables in Denny’s, there’s a 5-pack mentality. Red, brown, yellow, white, and black are our color scheme. We are all just toddlers taught not to color outside of lines in this coloring book of life. Reason being, systematic oppressionist mentalities. Reason being, since the beginning, white never mixed well with other things. Reason being, it’s overpowered too easily… So white forced black to lay foundation for a nation in these pages. And lines were implemented to impede blending, and stop the bleeding of other colors, by starting the bleeding of other colors,
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Crayolas: A Poem
