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Weekly Contest #377
The rose is stiff as waxed velvet in my mouth. I chew it anyway, heartily, not gratified when my teeth break through the waxy shell and the faint chemical flatness of pesticides bleed out into my mouth. It finds the many tiny wounds between my teeth and along my gums; it burns there, dozens of tiny stars lighting up the awful emptiness of my mouth. Still, I reduce it to a fibrous pulpy mass before I give up on it and spit it out behind the nearest vase. The caterers don't seem to notice the remnants, glistening greyed and pink with mixed sal...
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