Teeth

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martha sue coursey

Listen up because I know the code. Get on your bike without shoes, and ride as fast as you can on a summer night, north, under big dark trees. Wear a baseball cap even though the sun is gone. Listen to some rock and roll. Like, Automatic or Sixes and Sevens or Your Motherfucker by Mondo Cozmo. Listen to that. Chew some crunchy candy-coated mint gum. Reckon that liberty comes with realizing none of it matters — every attempt to fit or please or impress is not the way— and that…