Platonic yellow

© Giorgio de Chirico, The brain of the child (Moderna Museet, Stockholm)



within the lines, crying in black
and short fiction, i remember you
saying : there should be difference

there should be something in between,
a future for shame. i remember
your name : platonic yellow, once

a note on tenses, now a question-tag
in slow motion. there's no highlight
within the lines of consciousness,

i said, only words, and words
always loose the battle. it's
likely that, in pitch-black, i guess