The Rootless Tree
by Paulus Kapteyn
D and I meditate on the color brown.
He used to mix paint for art professors.
He likes to draw animals at the zoo and he writes his own songs.
When he has the fifteen drawings and songs he will put them to good use.
He speaks of the blue and yellow undertones of his Slavic skin.
He has on a tight red shirt with silver buttons.
He lives in an apartment with a friend from Indiana on the part of Hawthorne that is
L shaped.
He misses the small room he lived in on his lonesome at the Santa Monica Court in
Portland with its four palm trees.
His friend has red hair. In the winter she has blue tones.
She checks herself into the mental ward.
He visits her there every spring.
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