{"id":1793,"date":"2006-09-11T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/1793\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:57:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:57:05","slug":"1793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/09\/11\/1793\/","title":{"rendered":". . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in starless nights, as well as sunset shining,<br \/>\ni find hope and mystery enough<br \/>\nto fill a hundred pages with thousands of words,<br \/>\nand still have some leftover for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>today, musing, under sunny skies and cotton ball clouds,<br \/>\ni cannot find the words to fill the gaps:<br \/>\nraw teeth ripped crimson out of mouths<br \/>\nwithout novicane, without recourse, and with much agony.<\/p>\n<p>five years have done much to dull the pain;<br \/>\nwhile flaps of skin have overgrown screaming nerves,<br \/>\nthe bleeding and tears have receded.<br \/>\nall the  bills have been put on a payment plan.<\/p>\n<p>the dentists, grown fat and rich on missing teeth,<br \/>\nshow everyone photographs of what the ruin was.<br \/>\nhow bright our smiles are today. what great work they have done!<br \/>\ni hope their cigars give them mouth cancer.<\/p>\n<p>then cosmetic surgeons talk of new teeth,<br \/>\nshiny synthetic things, which will plug the gaps,<br \/>\nand find firm root where once oozed gummy holes.<br \/>\ni don&#8217;t want new teeth, but that won&#8217;t stop them.<\/p>\n<p>i miss my old teeth, though they are no more.<br \/>\nmostly i miss all the smiles they were a part of,<br \/>\nand all the smiles that were part of them.<\/p>\n<p>though many will strive to profit in filling the gaps,<br \/>\nfor many reasons, honorable or not,<br \/>\nmy manhattan smile will be gap-toothed evermore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/attachments\/jen\/2006_09_outlinewtc.jpg\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\">photo via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/\">gothamist<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in starless nights, as well as sunset shining, i find hope and mystery enough to fill a hundred pages with thousands of words, and still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-423","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}