Blue October

October is probably my favorite month, as I've said before. Days are beautiful and blue, mostly warm, and sometimes the nights get cool. I'm sorry it's almost half over. This poem always reminds me of a special October.

Blue Girl

because you wore blue yesterday
today I am in love with everything blue
The blue books on my shelves smile at me:
TEN GREEK PLAYS and CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH
Que j'adore le blue!
Bleu, blau, azul, azzurro.....
words popping like blueberries in my mouth
My indigo wastebasket too pure for use:
applecores fly out the window
When I close my eyes
visions of violets and sapphires blow them open
bluejeans & bluebells; blueback trout leap from the
walls

No good telling myself
It's only a wavelengh of energy
so many radiant millimicrons zapping my eyeballs:
one man can handle only so much blue
I'm writing this with a red ballpoint pen
using blue only for punctuation
at my age even the semi-colon is risky
but I hate being careful
I feel like ending it all
Looking for you
I'll dash out in this blue October day
and let those bright blue chips
fall
where they may

--Peter Meinke