Based on my poem Xanthophobia (the fear of yellow) from my Picaro Press chapbook phobiaphobia (2008).
Thanks to Official Nc Fx from Montreal, Canada for the great music. This was my first effort on ccMixter and I couldn’t have been happier Nc Fx’s remix. Merci – c’est fantastique!
Xanthophobia / Yellow peril
bleaching my teeth daily i yearn
for the grey day
afraid of the stripe down my spine
a cowardy-custard
disgusted by my own bile
poke out the eyes
of fried eggs
see summer suns as pus
drink copiously to keep my stream
of urine clear
send the canary down the adit
we don’t want it back
© rob walker, 2008