Missed Connections Hailey Uhler to know a thing is to hold it in your jaw– taste it. study its shape. a pelican’s beak carries three times more than its stomach but if it doesn’t have teeth, how can it understand its prey? swallow it whole, says the Ibis. do it before it’s plucked from your open mouth. tongues are the first to learn an absent tooth, to tell exposed nerves, what you feel isn’t there. the visible and the real are vastly different things.
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