Pink, Like Your Brain
This one’s about how
when I was sixteen
I loved the song ‘Cut To The Feeling’
by Carly Rae Jepsen.
Oh my God I was obsessed
I’ve tried to rationalise it a hundred ways:
it sounds like the songs that used to play on CBeebies, and I’m pretty nostalgic
always searching for a way to hold the past alongside the present;
I was going through a rough patch and I needed the pure unbridled joy of it
a sugar rush with heart!
but I think the real answer is that
it’s just a really fucking good song.
The song is pink and blue
pink like my brain pink like Pink In The Night and Rose-Coloured Boy pink like
pilling prom dresses and Echo Falls and the sky before school in the winter and
blue like broken ice
And here was pop! Beneath the frozen surface of synth there was
thunder and light, and I’d found something I could head-bang to
in my room to keep the dark
away.
I still bloody love that song!
and grateful for the way it made me feel
open like the sky
for the way that it let the noise in:
all the things I kept out, all the sugar and light
in the world.
Daisy Harris
To become enlightened listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlsu7RhOnsQ
Daisy Harris Poetry 