Five wrong colors

[Theme: A body becomes a prism; grief exits as five wrong colors and refuses reunion] [Movement I – EMO:White Certainty Enters – Adult Female Alto – Close-mic, no comfort] *fluorescent click* White came in straight White came in clean White had a name White had a seam I held it still Under my skin I was a room It entered in [Refrain Fracture A – EMO:First Scatter – Female Vocalist – Granular edge] Wrong colors leave me Wrong colors leave Ah—ah—split through the rib Wrong colors leave [Movement II – EMO:Red Anger Exits – Female Vocalist – Percussive consonants, displaced grid] Red left first At a cruel angle Not as a flame As a measurement Red left first With its teeth folded Under the tongue Like an instrument *glass tick* I did not shout The grid shouted for me I did not break The beat broke early [Refrain Fracture B – EMO:Anger Refuses Center – Female Vocalist – Hard-panned, clipped] Wrong colors leave me Wrong colors leave Mm—mm—cut from the rib Wrong colors leave [Movement III – EMO:Blue Numbness Exits – Female Vocalist – Half-whisper, sub-bass moan] Blue did not weep Blue sterilized Blue made a lake Behind my eyes Blue had no weather Blue had no shore Blue was a door Inside a door *two seconds silence* I counted nothing Nothing counted back The room stayed factual The body went black [Refrain Fracture C – EMO:Numbness As Geometry – Female Vocalist – Delayed, resynthesized doubles] Wrong colors leave me Wrong colors leave Ooh—wrong, wrong angle Wrong colors leave [Movement IV – EMO:Yellow Panic Exits – Female Vocalist – Double-time fragments, buffer stutter] Yellow bit the ceiling Yellow rang the wire Yellow wrote my pulse In administrative fire Yellow came sideways Yellow came thin Yellow found every exit And refused to begin *buffer cough* Do not call it healing Do not call it rain Do not put a lantern In the mouth of pain [Refrain Fracture D – EMO:Panic Splinters – Female Vocalist – Stuttered hook] Wrong co— wrong co— colors leave me Wrong colors leave Ah—fracture, fracture Wrong colors leave [Movement V – EMO:Violet Memory / White Absence – Female Vocalist – No beats, reverse piano] Violet kept the photograph But burned the face away White returned empty Not clean, only late The prism did not bless me The prism did not know It only made directions For what would not go home *room tone widens* None recombine None say my name Each takes its angle Each keeps its blame [Final Refrain – EMO:No Reunion – Female Vocalist – Bare, atonal string dust] Wrong colors leave me Wrong colors leave Mm—ah—split through the rib Wrong colors leave Wrong colors leave me Wrong colors leave No white returning Wrong colors leave