One Hundred Years of Solitude

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by paying one cent they saw a
youthful Melquíades,
recovered, unwrinkled, with a
new and flashing set of teeth.
Those who remembered his
gums that had been destroyed
by scurvy, his flaccid cheeks,
and his withered lips
trembled with fear at the final
proof of the gypsys
supernatural power. The fear
turned into panic when
Melquíades took out his teeth,
intact, encased in their gums,

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