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just different 2 min read 587 views Jan 9, 2017

Adieu Dental Floss And Toothbrush

All those years
   I underwent
   orthodontic care for naught
cuz profound gum recession
   and bone dissolution found me fraught
with angst riddled necessity
   whence dentures bought
or will soon bring relief,
   where financial cost to me = aught.
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though grievous o'er a diet
   of baby food -
   rubs me raw bibbed bill bit
Subject: query now answered -
   with true grit
state 'o me health of body,
   mind and spirit
yea...yea...with following
   poe whet tics git writ.
Re: cap ma current day
   coup page with collage
   of words that attempt
   to convey how I felt 
   after a half dozen teeth removed,
   that day of departure
   fur remaining lower teeth transpired
   with sore gums as testament
   to grinning and bearing
   final surrender of bottom choppers.
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twas not with glee this bro
did accept fate,
   now twitters like a black crow
adjusting new parabolic learning curve
to talk, where speech akin
   to blob of dough
being formless,
   yet with gumption
to these extractions did flow
into mine psyche
   (twinge of accursed displeasure), boot go
   to the University of Pennsylvania
   Dental School and a heave hoe
   this scrivener and regular joe
find a silver lining ya know
removal of upper teeth from those
less than five centimeters be low
now a done deal for many weeks
   i.e. aboot sixteen fortnights
finds me unable to reef er
   to the skin of my teeth,
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this circumstance doth suck n bite
though once dentures fitted,
   thee psychological gloom
(per maxillofacial situation)
with relief insurance
   picks up the tab will alight.
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if ignored, the grim state
   of vital accessories to chew
this chap likely
   to experience additional
   molars, cuspids, canines...
   falling out though few
remained upon embarkation
   per painful turn of events, grew
ling a smidgen less worse
   than getting tossed out hoo
in2 the freezing brutal cold
by donald trump
   eskimo master of a royal igloo
while sarah n aid ding
   howling winds
of n arctic monkey shape shifting
into polar vortex imp pale 
   me in deleterious state
   of health thru and thru.
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other than the above
matthew scott harris feels great
well.... on the bright side -
   no need to brush nor floss,
when mouth opened ajar -
   bing temporarily toothless -
   aye will hate,
   hence inclined to master
   art of ventriloquism
   hoop fully finding work around
   to avoid beak comb ming irate.

 

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