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Baby Deer Mouth

I'm talking like I've seen one up close, 12-point parenthesis under eraser nose. It's fine. The deer and this daydream. I have the tools.

Hot and overcast here (desk) and there (deermouth). I want to have a knack for content reuse. The trick is talking about mouths independent of faces without sounding like a killer. Keep me posted.

In the meantime the tongue is like one in a pig I won at Dave and Buster's, but thicker, jauntier. It hates itself less because it’s not from Dave and Buster's. It belongs in a Silly Putty egg.

Teeth like half-rice, like my dead schnauzer's. I don’t mean to be creepy. They were cute and small. Rest in peace, every one of them, separately, in separate graves,

ha! I made it creepy.

 
 

Untitled (Jeff Goldblum as Dobby)

 

Untitled (Amelia Earhart)

 

 
 

Jenna Jaco is a technical writer from Texas working in visual programming and the internet of things. Her work has most recently appeared in Peach Mag and Nonbinary Review. She tweets @jennajaco and documents her collection on Instagram @mostly_erasers.