I wanted to write a poem about flowers, so that's what I did. It was short, expressed how I feel, and cut like glass. I showed my father "Flowers" and he thought it was mediocre. And I said, "No, "Mediocre" is the poem where I talk about dying, and I'm trying to stay alive, so I wrote about flowers."
Flowers strangling soil plots with their roots, with their existence. And to hurt something you love with your existence is a terrible feeling.