What color is the scent of shoe laces?

Yellow. 
Newspapers in the attic of
a cinnamon-tangerine-peppermint
house. The attic.
The musty museum flea market
glimmering faintly like fried eggs--
Blue like a bent-knee father 
on the sidewalk who 
skips with the rabbit through
the hole-- but you're too
busy tasting alien flowers--
"You should know how to tie them
by now" was my maroon second grade
teacher who was always a type
of red. 
There's a lot of people
who smell like red or
scarlet or crimson--
never auburn because auburn
smells too much like
dried leaves to let in smoke--
Green. Spearmint candy crystals
that pour out June from
their jeweled lips.
Like dead purple worms
around my ankles in violet vines--
Would you still tie my shoes for me?
Even though I'm auburn now
and red too.