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neal's pizzeria
 
24.8.09  
Wisdom

You left me a week after
they took my teeth out.
They said the holes in my
mouth wouldn't fill in for
six months. You are scheduled
to return in three.

My old habits remain.
I grasp for intimacy.
I get stuff stuck where I once
reliably had teeth.

I wish for a wall of hard enamel love.
Something I can lean on and leverage off.
Instead I feel abyss.

I fear an infection will overrun
my mouth.
Absences lead to abscesses.
I keep my wounds bleeding
clean so you will have
a spot when you return.

14:43

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