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PRETTIER IF YOU SMILED<br />

Solace Bergman<br />

A response to to Lucille Clifton’s homage to my hips.<br />

these teeth are crooked teeth,<br />

they are chipped perfection,<br />

partitioning tongue and cheek.<br />

they do not stand<br />

in straight lines at attention.<br />

these teeth are sovereign teeth,<br />

they refuse to be bound by metal bars.<br />

they lean and jut like teenage hips<br />

cradled by loving lips. these teeth will<br />

cut through kisses like a knife.<br />

these teeth are biting teeth,<br />

I have known them to<br />

chew a man up and<br />

spit him out like gristle on a steak!<br />

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