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Cotton Candy Duct Tape
I'm suffocating on stringy sugar
Coating my lips,
my teeth, my tongue.

Benadryl pills go down my throat and mix with sickly sweet saliva and never really dissolve.

I am choked by cloudy sugar
and it sticks to my face like duct tape,
and I swallow high fructose bile.

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