A POEM by YELDANA TALGATKYZY
This Halloween I’m dressing up as a tooth fairy
When I finally catch you,
I will eat your teeth first.
I will savor every crunch
and make a real spectacle
of your unusually short gums
and laugh with all my dentist friends
about how all your cavities
kind of have a phallic shape.
This is payback
for when you said
you would
without question
smash me with your
ugly grandpa boots
if I turned into a worm.
Yeldana Talgatkyzy (she/her) is from Astana, Kazakhstan. She is a junior at Williams College studying English and Psychology. Yeldana is looking for ways to obscure experience through writing. She is on IG at @yeld.t.