a.r.

sometimes, many a times, we exist as half teeth.

fractured tooth

selves (n/a)/multiple
thirty one (and a half)
at the least
(give whatever
or take one and thirty
with the half indeed)

and lives
frozen in margins
(deny. deride. discard)

yet
like a fractured tooth
still in its socket
we persist

with only
the pain for reminder
that (occasionally)
we too
exist.

—a.r.