User talk:KazumiKurochi

Jerelle Pena
I wish i had your colors I wish i had your colors And your second sheet of skin

I was the camera shutter You were the camera flash You dressed in camouflage I- I wore pajama pants

I was a manatee You- you were a cuttlefish, I moved in cavalcades, lumbering You could choreograph a ballad in the muscle tissue of a subtle twitch Masquerade as something other, make your outer colors switch I was sculpted out of slate, you grew out a floral wreath I had dorsal flippers, you had tentacles and plural feet And twisted past the crevices and left me by the coral reef

Bereft of thought, left abroad Always acted like you spoke the breath of God Concrete cephalopod Of course you couldn’t let me in Coagulate your casing when I touched you with my ventral fin Polaroids with exes, you had emerald skin, several tints Watched your soma shimmer when you texted him I’ve seen all your colors fade, it’s me that you’ve lost interest in Beige or blue at home but you could toggle through a range of hues Flash an orange smile to men that you were just a stranger to Never was a creature that you couldn’t change into Nothing complicated for you mimic octopus, what can’t you do Stage yourself an angelfish, change to an electric eel Arrange yourself in halo rings, conduct a charge of sex appeal

Never knew if you would give me voltage or a spark Me, a goldfish at the surface, you would puncture through the dark As you were coming, never knew if you were dolphin or a shark When you pulled your disappearing act and cast me your good-byes I would ask you why you’re leaving, you would mask it with your lies Selective memory, forget the good, remember when i fucked shit up Hold onto regrets and petty arguments with suction cups Bioluminescent, you would find me if try and hid Giant squid feelers, venom lion fish fins

When you pulled your disappearing act and cast me your good-byes I would ask you why you’re leaving, you would mask it with your lies Practiced master of disguise, go and blast me with your dyes Inkjet smokescreen me with mascara from your eyes

I was nothing like you; i was colorless, maladroit I saw us as lovers, not as color-coded data points On some sort of a lab report, i tried to become you Change my patterns often and take us back to what we had before But i could never do it, you could see through my Chromatophores Control me with your colors, what’s a sea cow to a matador

You- you were a darter fish Facelift artifice Garter snakeskin scales Shapeshift cartilage

I was the camera shutter

You were the camera flash

You dressed in camouflage

I- I wore pajama pants

I was a manatee

You- you were a cuttlefish,

I moved in cavalcades, lumbering