She’s terrifying.
Not because of the way she makes
it perfectly clear
how she owns the world.
Not because of the marks she can leave,
little slices. Big slices.
red red red.
blue black yellow green.
Not because she’s like me not like me a little like me
and that can be confusing
in an admiring
not admiring
sort of way.
In fact, because of all of those things.
But mostly because of her teeth.
Her teeth are so small.
They are white and they are each
individual
little pieces of bone
little bone knives.
Most people, you look at their teeth,
and they’re like the palisades
or a fence
they’re all together in a line, teeth
not a collection of tooths.
It’s that individuation
and the smallness
somehow, that makes them so scary.
What a surprise –
those little edges.
The better to eat you with.
I like this one!