Green is the color of my true clown’s hair
A villanelle

Behind my skin their lives another version of me
Summoned with paints, glitters, and powders
I’m my own art, that’s my own guarantee
It starts with a base, an alabaster sea
then blush inspired by nature’s flowers
Behind my skin their lives another version of me
For the crease of my eyes, paint on the color of ghee
Draw you into my sights, leave you free to devour
I’m my own art, that my own guarantee
Glue lashes down, blue caterpillars set free,
I emerge my true self, a human, but louder.
Behind my skin their lives another version of me
A clown complete with an emerald goatee
Face made of rainbows my own superpower
I’m my own art, that my own guarantee
Throw on my wig, green for growing into who I want to be.
In a world of greys, I won’t sit and cower
Behind my skin their lives another version of me
I’m my own art, that my own guarantee
behind my skin their lives another version of me
Summoned with paints, glitters, and powders
I’m my own art, that my own guarantee
About the Creator
Shelton Lindsay
Creative Director, Writer, Performer.
See Shelton perform with the New York Neo-Futurists, in THE FAE SERIES, at HOUSE OF YES and with FOU FOU HA.
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