|  | Sometimes when I’m tired
 and just out of the morning shower
 I brush my teeth naked
 in front of the mirror
 my fat stomach no longer hidden
 looking like a ball of dough
 dropped on the floor
 of a cafeteria,
 running my hands over
 my unshaved face that
 isn’t rugged but just
 dirty-looking
 and I say to myself
 “look at those pearly whites.”
 
 
    
   
    
    
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