Every Rose has its fake, gaudy, and often ugly plastic thorn

We are all guilty of it at some point. Just admit it now, there is no shame in it. Oh I'm sorry, when I say "it," I mean the butchering of a helpless flower just trying to get by with the meager water given to it by those people who are mindful enough to care. This mistake is usually no fault of the murderer, but rather the fault of the societal trend for restaurants to have false, plastic flowers on display in their restaurants.

Many a flower
Has been mistook for plastic
And thus wrongly slain


Now, to elaborate on what I have mentioned prior to this sentence I am currently typing at the moment. The crime we are all guilty of is (drum roll please... or not, drum rolls are too cliche. If I needed a drum roll for any purpose I would probably request a New Orleans big band or something. Or a vibraslap. Those things are sweet.) testing to see if a flower is plastic and finding out that it isn't the hard way. Or maybe I'm the only one who has done that, in which this post is pointless.

I suppose what I am getting at is that I find plastic flowers in bad taste, and frown upon the number of flowers that are slain from a case of mistaken identities. It's like all of those people who end up in jail despite being innocent.... or not. Yeh, not really actually, so disregard that analogy.

SQUIRREL! (runs away cliche-edly)