P&W Prompt: Crayon Colors

If you’re thinking this is going to be a sweet little poem about childhood and crayons, you’ve forgotten about just how powerful word association can be.  Here’s the Poets & Writers’ prompt for last week:

Last month, Crayola announced the retirement of one of their yellow crayon colors, Dandelion, which will soon be replaced by a blue crayon. Since Binney & Smith first began producing Crayola crayons in 1903, many colors have been cycled in and out. Some colors have remained the same shade bu...