this is getting getting to me

A terrible cold cum allergy wave has hit Arizona, so we have anti-viral tissues at school. The anti-viral part comes in little blue dots on the tissue paper.

"If you lick them the blue dots taste nasty!!!" the kids have told me- all day long, like little memes just for me. I told them they're disgusting and that licking tissue paper is a nasty habit.

But late last period, when no students were in my classroom, I found myself huddled behind my desk. Licking a tissue.