Apollo Blue

i want

this blue, this can of paint,

he says.

Apollo Blue

by Martin Senour.

i've been using it for fifty years.

i want the same

thing,

it's the paint my children

grew up with,

my deceased wife

picked it out.

in 1965. 

the shiny kind,

but, i tell him

they don't make it any more.

that company is

out of business.

it's nowhere to be found.

please, he says. please

try,

it would mean

the world to me.

if i don't get the color

i want,

i may die.