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The Streets Are Bleeding Sakura

There's a rare blooming of sakura this fall the trees cotton-candy-sweet antipsychotic-sweet Blossoms descend in batches soon to cover the asphalt road like spilled Pepto-Bismol I swallow my pill with regret drift into oblivion the petals blur in my vision the whole world tinted pink by my medicated brain

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Date: 9/27/2021 5:02:00 PM
such vivid imagery especially 'like spilled pepto bismol' I would love to see the sakura trail one day hugs jan xx
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