The This Is Your Life Candle Co.
I try to set the mood
but instead I catapult your own memories around you
It’s the candles
A Hardware Store scented candle
and one in Freshly-Squeezed Gasoline
and Rain on Hot Blacktop
and Darkroom Chemicals With the Door Locked
This one smells different to every smeller
it’s called Humiliating Experience in Love
If you can burn through it
you win a prize
The prize is a message
trapped in the base of the candle
A phone number
or an address
or a sentence
It is the clue you have always been chasing
Oh, wonderful. I definitely know some of these smells....
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