“The false teeth that kissed me / remained here / after you went away. / I sometimes look at them / and see you cleaning them again with string, / with a twig from the field / and then blow on them, patiently, with love. / One day, maybe, I will give them to my jaws.”

—  Menotti Lerro

Source: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 20

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