Mac and Cheese

Sarah Hohn

English Major—2nd Year

I will color you with all one hundred and twenty crayons from the Crayola box. The one with the sharpener. For this, I will need every color from Mac and Cheese to Spring Green. I would say that the colors that make you up are endless, but I would just be lying. And I am not a liar. Your edges are clearly defined. You might be shaded but you are certainly not deep. I think that to color you, I will need lots of reds. Scarlet and English Vermilion. More importantly, I will use the blues to draw you. Lots of different blues because if you make me feel anything, it is blue. You are mostly blue and you are all of the blues. I will use Cornflower, Ultramarine Blue, and Cadet Blue. Can you picture it now? But, let me mention that the blues and the reds don’t mix when it comes to you. You are not purple. I will not need Eggplant. And definitely not Wisteria. That is silly. Purple is deep and beautiful. You are not a rainbow, a homogeneous mixture of colors, nor are you complex. Anyway, next I will need yellows. The brightest ones. Dandelion, Banana Mania, Middle Yellow, and Canary. This will do well. But, these yellows are not happy. These yellows are synthetic and distracting. The yellows will be used to take place of the grays that you hide. I don’t use grays for I took them all out of the box. Grays are mean and dull. Then, when I am done, I can crumple you up out of anger, put the reds, blues, greens, and yellows neatly back into the box, and pull out a fresh piece of paper.