Blue In The Face

”I have imagined my life ending, or simply
evaporating, by being subsumed into a tribe
of blue people. I dreamed of these blue people
as a child, long before I knew that such people
existed. Now I know that they do, in the eastern
and central Sahara desert, and that they are called
Tuareg, which means “abandoned by God.”
 
It should be noted that the Tuareg do not
call themselves Tuareg. Nor do they call themselves
the blue people. They call themselves Imohag,
which means “free men.”
- from ‘Bluets’ by Maggie Nelson
 
‘Even when you’re blue, you can smile.’
- Mr Blue

Mr Blue