Paint Job

A corner of the living room - --
strange the designation"living room."
Are  not  all  rooms living rooms,
those in space as well as those in time?

A corner of a particular living room
in the Warsaw Ghetto on the eve of WWII
is bathed in table lamp low wattage.
The walls are painted  a pale shade of  yellow.

We grow comfortable in our skin and  living room.
Sunlight streams through the blinds in different slants
the different seasons of the year.
It's often referred to as aging.

Consider this, were you to paint over yellow
key lime green, would the Chopin on the record player
still have the same effect on you?  I doubt it.
Color effects mood,

That's why I insist,
be you rabble, rabbi or poet,
be you Rembrandt or Picasso,
a home is essentially a paint job.