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i was given a piece of gum. it was the color of chemicals and fluorescent lights. it looked like something you should never put in your mouth. we have much of it in america. it makes your mouth feel fresh and alive. it feels like an artificial snowstorm.

i walked home and all the taste had been sucked out of it. next to my apartment building there is a tin roof. there are a number of tin roofs in the area and they all seem to point at one of the doors on the second floor. it is unbearably hot there during the day. all of the sunlight floods towards this door and the roofs act like mirrors. i thought it would be a fun experiment to throw the gum on one of the roofs.

the gum has lost all of its shape today. i threw it on one of the roofs that slopes slightly downward. it can’t be more than a one or two degree slope. it’s just enough to allow the rain to trickle off if it does ever decide to rain again. today the gum became a fluorescent teardrop running down the roof. it has trickled about a foot and a half and left an odd trail behind it. it is so hot that gum melts and flows down a relatively flat tin rooftop.