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Her mother named her White Dahlia, the consequence of unplanned pregnancy while studying forensics. Or so she told the boy selling orchids in popcorn bags (he ran out of sheet music and poetry books). Renaming her Orchid he’d ram into her all night so their breathing would fog up the windows, an eternal 21C. A common misconception: flowers have no bones. He learned what it means to have a backbone when she broke his fangs like sugar cubes. A glass slide is too small a coffin for one convinced she was “beloved”. The strawberry cigarette ash should have been the tip-off. Rarely will a botanist throw their own child under Industry’s wheels.
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 9:19 PM UTC
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Her mother named her White Dahlia, the consequence of unplanned pregnancy while studying forensics. Or so she told the boy selling orchids in popcorn bags (he ran out of sheet music and poetry books). Renaming her Orchid he’d ram into her all night so their breathing would fog up the windows, an eternal 21C. A common misconception: flowers have no bones. He learned what it means to have a backbone when she broke his fangs like sugar cubes. A glass slide is too small a coffin for one convinced she was “beloved”. The strawberry cigarette ash should have been the tip-off. Rarely will a botanist throw their own child under Industry’s wheels.
Originally published by Vending Machine Press, December 2014
margaryta
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 9:19 PM UTC
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