he hollows out her sockets with a dry hum of electricity
Her giggles feel like cold snow on cheeks or like Nitris warming your stomach for takeoff
She came to forget the poison they would soon remove
so she leans back in her chair
and breathes
Soon, everything else tingles around the edges of her vision like a daydream
And she is lost to the dentist office on 15th Street while they begin.
Just another voice 