Blue is the colour,
Football is the game;
We’re all together
And winning is our name.
I’ll come right out with it: I hated
that chant so much it sickens me that I know which football team it was
about. I hate football. I despise the aggressive competitiveness it
harbours; not to mention the sectarian attitude it engenders. And the game itself bores me to nausea.
However, there are plenty more
associations with the colour ‘blue’ – the theme for this year’s poem-cycle – that
create a reaction in me, whether in my intellect, my emotions, or my guts.
And that’s what this month’s ‘Canto’
is all about.
Twelve
Tones of Blue
Canto III: Threes; colours of blue, and character-centres:
heart, brain, guts.
Canto
III
Tripartite:
pale and deep and little-boy baby
Collar,
stocking, about-to-set-sail navy
Royal, Oxbridge,
Tory
Camberwell
Beauty, bottle or bell
Bird
or berry, whale or jell
A
print, report or censorial pencil
Jarmon,
Kieslowski, or pornographic flick
Darling
of the moment, cheese or microchip -
All
of these: the brain and heart and guts of it.
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