{"id":275,"date":"2018-08-13T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=275"},"modified":"2018-07-26T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:47:31","slug":"peeling-teeth-by-madeleine-de-pree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/08\/13\/peeling-teeth-by-madeleine-de-pree\/","title":{"rendered":"Peeling Teeth by Madeleine De Pree"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Madeleine De Pree is a 19-year-old undergraduate student at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She has appeared in five different publications, the most recent of which include The Thing Itself and Little Rose Magazine.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peeling Teeth<\/p>\n<p>When your adult teeth grew in, your mouth was too small to hold them. So the dentist had to pull eight teeth.<\/p>\n<p>During this pulling, the dentist accidentally dropped two teeth down your throat, which you swallowed on reflex. I tell you that this is hilarious, because it is. <em>You are missing a quarter of your adult mouth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>You think a lot about science and death. These are the only pursuits worth following: <em>science and death<\/em>. You tell me this while we sit in your parked car. And I disagree. <em>What about art,<\/em> I say. <em>Doesn\u2019t art matter. <\/em>You tell me that art is too virile. Too nebulous. It is not wholly safe.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s dark again. We\u2019re walking close along a sidewalk. You laugh. And I ask <em>What. <\/em>But you shake your head and smile, not answering. You point at my pink shoelaces instead. <em>Double-knotted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You laugh again. And again I ask why. You say <em>Life. <\/em>You say <em>Life is a life experience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>You say <em>Sometimes I feel ruined.<\/em> And I ask <em>How do you mean.<\/em> I know what you mean. I see it moving around behind your eyes, not settling. But you won\u2019t say it. So I think <em>Fine<\/em>. And I think <em>Maybe I\u2019ll just leave.<\/em> But I don\u2019t. And we stand outside by the water.<\/p>\n<p>The air comes close and presses against us. It smells like cigarettes and nothing and lake.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t think I care about you. <\/em>You say this one night. <em>Or if I do, it\u2019s not in the right way. <\/em>You say you are sorry. You know you are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I should say that I love you. That I feel like a naked grape. Peeled. With my nerve endings exposed to the air and everything stinging. But instead I put my hands in my pockets and shrug. And I think about your body. Cloth scraps. The feeling of pins.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Later that week you will buy a margarita. I will not see you before or after. And you will not have me.<\/p>\n<p>But you will have someone. Someone and a salt rim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madeleine De Pree is a 19-year-old undergraduate student at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She has appeared in five different publications, the most recent of which include The Thing Itself and Little Rose Magazine. &nbsp; Peeling Teeth When your adult teeth grew in, your mouth was too small to hold them. 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