Roots

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They say that a tree is only as strong as its roots, so I break its bark in half to suck the fluid that those roots have soaked up, dig around in its soil and plant a seed for a new tree to grow, see trees on the outside only hide what makes its inside and those are its roots, and hell, I love samples of roots that taste like fruit loops and are smooth to the touch, see contrary to what scientist say, roots aint made to stay hidden beneath the surface, they meant to be dug up and dug out, see when my mama told me as a youngin to water that plant, I didnt know she was inadvertantly preppin me for years down the line when I would become a personal gardner, see nothing grows in unfertile soil, so you gotta tend it and mend it, even if that means those barks have to be bended, cause the object is to send that tree to the top of the sky, hearing the yells from its canopy as you become deep rooted, and that ish they holla in our adolescence that if a tree falls in the forest and no ones around to hear it, does it make a sound, hell yeah, especially when you keeping bustin that shovel into that fertile ground and hittin those roots, so if you really wanna know why adam took a bite of that forbidden fruit, is cause he was too chicken to taste the roots from which that tree called eve grew