Still Life
Favorite color?
No color exists alone, like a note in a music composition
or a frame in a movie**,
I may say, a blue pen. You will say, its cobalt one,
placed on a green book, actually a sap green,
with one corner covered by a red apple, a symbol***.
Well, maroon with salmon speckles,
supported by a piece of yellow cheese, the kind with holes.
Swiss cheese, we would say to simplify****,
to communicate better, or faster.
Precise description of a color may confuse,
make conversation longer, less interesting,
or even destruct it; change the meaning of what we are saying,
like shouting or whispering.
Leave it to a painter.