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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
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    • Still Standing
Hygiene
 
I have 17 nightmares stuck between my teeth. Well no I didn't count them, they feel like 17. How you felt when you were 17, it was mostly a nightmare. It had sweet parts also, which get stuck in your teeth in a different way. Ouch said the helpless. They have even more nightmares. Flossing doesn't help with this, even though every time you go to that dentist they will tell you you don't floss enough. Nobody ever flosses enough. If we all walked around flossing flossing flossing all the time except when we had to use our hands to pick up a tool, say, hammer a nail, even then it would not be enough flossing. According to some. I say that you can stop flossing right now. Let's just not have a contagion of flossing, the horrible vision of everyone walking around with their mouths open, focused on their own teeth. What a world that would be, what a terrible world. Focus on your nightmares instead. Focus on how sweet they once tasted.

Kyla Houbolt's debut micro chapbook, Dawn's Fool, is available from IceFloe Press: https://icefloepress.net/kyla-houbolts-dawns-fool-a-microchap/  Most of her published work is available on her Linktree: https://linktr.ee/luaz_poet and you can find her on Twitter @luaz_poet.
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