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Falling asleep you have a tooth,
waking up – you don’t. You’ve eaten it.
This continues night after night.
Until
your tongue remains completely alone,
like a forgotten streetlamp
left on during daylight.
Author: Marin Bodakov
Translator: Katerina Stoykova
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Brilliant.
Love the simile.
Haunting!
A little too close to home because one of my teeth is cracking…
Like a forgotten streetlamp!
An expression of what happens during a lifetime of loss
Losing teeth in a dream–pretty sure this is ominous.