No Teeth

What are these
small, toothless skulls?
I asked naively;
What are they? What?
They are the skulls
of babes taken from their cradles
abandoned to die and rot.






"No Teeth" first appeared in Fantasy and Terror 5, 1985.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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