Colors She Can Eat with Her Eyes

She said she liked

leg warmers and stained-glass Jesuses

shaman drums and Miss America swimsuits

fly eyes and Kufi caps

Queen jubilees and taco trucks

She thought

private parts should be covered with star stickers

and Mona Lisa looked like formaldehyde

my army men ought to carry around lightsabers

and sharks dreamed of coral reefs

She said that

only African women know how to dress right

and on the top of Mount Everest you can go blind

the Pharaohs of Egypt could kiss her all day

except Ramses XI because he probably looked like sand

One day I asked her

if she would ever want to fly to the moon

she said only the Milky Way

that we should make Sundays with cotton candy ice cream

and later put marbles in the bottom of her goldfish tank

I said to her

that I finally understood what she meant

and that I thought girls were just plain silly

but she just put her palm up to my loopy lips

and grabbed her kaleidoscope to clock me in the head