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Pink


by Bill Yarrow


Among the cherry trees, they fell in love. 
Later that month, he took her out for 
deep pink soup and pale pink tea. Together 
they peeled and fed each other pink fruit, 
ordered expensive pink beef, went on 
vacations and viewed pink sunsets 
on paradise beaches. His memories
included pink medicine, pink taffy, pink
panties, pink lips. Hers included pink 
bubbles, pink slippers, pink horses and 
pink sheets. Neither could imagine a heaven 
untinged with pink. They were right: 
the afterworld is splendiferously pink, 
the exact color of a child's new wound.

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