In movies, the bigger BOYS always spit out a tooth or two because it makes them look so hard. But has Don Juan ever looked under his pillow expecting dirty quarters from the tooth fairy? So I swallowed hard. My teeth,
know
.
No.
the quarters, the knife. The pit. The ocean.
Does that make me a glutton? Because I
Don Juan wasn’t born with teeth. He was born with ivory bricks in his mouth. And when the tooth fairy comes for him, they make LOVE. They make money from his body. But I swear, when he’s smoking the last cigarette, she warns him not to walk through any windows. So he throws his breath into the Parisian rain as if it’s caution into the wind and steals a glance through that frame thinking to himself. He’s beautiful JUMP.
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