#verse: dicksinson

[brokendevilwrites]

Hello beautiful person! I would like to ask why the title of your Dickinson fanfic is "the sky is green and the grass is blue"? I'm just really curious. Thanks in advance!

Hi, hello darling.

I wish I had a really deep response for this. I want to be able to say I really sat down and thought it out and pressed the right buttons until the correct feeling emerged.

However, what actually happened was I was listening to the The Grass Is Blue album by Dolly Parton as I was writing. Because I wish I could be the kind of writer who makes playlists for my stories but I always go back to good ol' familiar albums.

I knew the story was going to be about these two falling into realisation (they've been in love for years, we know that). But I wanted to have the denial and attempts to show their friendship was more important than anything else.

So of course after I finished bopping around to "Will he be waiting for me" (which is a solid 9.5/10 in terms of foot tapping, loses half a point because the song is SAD) The Grass Is Green follows it.

And I KNOWWWWWWWWWW it's about a break up, but the lyrics --

"I just can't make it one day without you, unless I pretend that the opposite's true --"

and

"There's snow in the tropics, there's ice on the sun. It's hot in the Arctic, and crying is fun."

and

"And I don't love you, and the grass is blue. And the sky is green, and the grass is blue."

Basically made me go -- "We love a Queen in Denial" -- and Sue Gilbert said, "Bitch me too, the fuck?"

And that's how it went.