Purple - An Analogy for Deception

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The colour purple (red plus blue) is a figment of the brain as it does not exist naturally on the visible spectrum.

Purple as analogy for deception: 1. The integration of perceptual distortion, 2. cognitive misinterpretation, and 3. socio-economic critique.

*A line from Jimi Hendrix's iconic 1960’s song ‘Purple Haze’.

the colour of the money stained my fingers they’re no mere vignettes but rather a cryptic cipher on a worn codex the coin of acceptance amongst gilded sybarites as the shades of the tenor of royalty beguile then fade on labour-worn backs preordained moves by shadow hands upon a chessboard the influential players pandering to my wishful delusions in ever incongruous shades of deceit purple haze all in my brain* while I try to kiss the sky the reality flickers ephemeral like the tint of reels of film romantic views of life bathed in purple hues anecdotes clutched like a life raft however, their veracity wasn’t challenged but nevertheless still a hypnopompic dream

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