These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Color by Numbers

Red begins each Christmas, first,
Then secondly the green.
Blue creates a three times thirst
in salty water seen.

Orange you glad four Mandarins we ate.
Five lemons really squeezed.
Six brown slices should abate
the hunger, that us seized.

Seven violet thoughts outgrabe,
as indigo pursued.
The eight grand fuschia men obeyed
nine polka dots embued.

Black as ten insanity seeks
to trouble eleven more hues,
But twelve the end each glazed one seeks.
The colors have been used.

by Jay O’Toole
on September 18th, 2020