Never ask a creative
What color you should paint.
The answer will always be
Some color that it ain’t.
You should ask a farm kid.
They’ll say, “Get the leftover stain.”
They’ll get a roller and use it up
And the rail looks nice again.
I’m working on getting that second-story deck rail finished, a year after I started it. I could blame it on the rain, but you’d probably cry fake–mostly the problem is that it’s way more work to “frame my vista in a buttery vanilla color” than it would have been to “slap some stain on the fence that keeps the kids from falling off the deck.” Regrets, I have them. I also have an ugly half-finished deck rail. Not what I had imagined.
YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY 
I would never tell the truth on the internet and WordPress poetry even less. Glad that someone does. BTW, diagonal streaks of indigo and sunset orange is always good :).
Thanks…These poems may be bad, but at least they’re honest. 🙂 I love your color idea, I’m thinking I should do the whole house in that scheme! I’ll get my kids to help me tape it off…
Also, based on what I’ve learned from WP reader ;), I’d say your poetry’s not bad at all–it’s pretty good.
Well, thanks! I even fixed the typo in this one. That’s quality. (Seriously, thanks. I’m having some fun with this August stunt–encouraging words always welcome.)
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