It Only Looks Good In Rainbows and Gardens

It's the black sheep  
and wayward son, of the color palette...
 
You know which one, I mean;
oran....
 
"Ssshh!  Don't say it out loud ! It'll show up
like Beetlejuice, if you speak its name!
 
(that was a close one....)
 
But you know it, the
outcast that worms it's way into your every thought, until ....
you can't stop thinking about it, like
the iconic picture of James Dean,so
smug and dirty-smirked, with
that dangling defiant cigarette ...
yes, indeed, that  
is just what the color oran......
 
"Good Lord-- you can't say it!"
 
(**sprinkles holy water**)
 
Ahem....
 
It is necessary in rainbows and quite worthy  
in a garden--
I'll give IT, credit for that, but
the crocheted afghan, I just had to buy
at the estate sale
was coral.
 
Yes, it was far more coral, or
even salmon, if you will....
it was definitely not
---uh, uh, uh....tsk, tsk...
 
(don't say it, man... )
 
It sticks out like an inflamed intestine,
that afghan,
among all my calming , pretty  
ocean aquas and sandy whites...
 
and I'm somewhat unsure about it,
but mostly not,
so it stays in the basket with the other afghans.
 
Perhaps I do prefer, once in a while,
a good jolt to the eyes
from that sneaky little color
oran...
 
"Sshhh...