A Rose is a Rose

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Wild things grow,
beneath the skin, the soil burns,
one can muster all the will,
and still be beaten brown and crumbly,
withered, dead, and drowned--

The potent smell of bad perfume.

Even from the ashes and mud,
of things of murk, slime, and shame,
can blossom bright--

New magic an- other- day.

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