"Getting My Teeth Cleaned"

 

Today, I get my teeth cleaned.

All that tartar and plaque: "b-bye!"

I'll get flossed by a lady professional--

The secret desire of every guy.

 

They'll be picked and polished until they glow in the sun.

With that 'I've just had my teeth cleaned' shine.

Of course, then, I'll be questioned by everyone,

If these teeth are really mine.

 

In the old days, y'know, they used dead animal teeth:

Elephant tusks and rhinoceros horn,

To replace people's teeth-- and of course it wasn't cheap.

But this was way before I was born.

 

At the very end, I'll get my mouth expertly washed,

With some mint-flavored halitosis-hiding rinse.

Of course when I wake up tomorrow,

I'll have to keep gargling and chewing

Those life-saving, bad-breath-disguising mints.

 

B. Kite -- 3/28/2023

 

Done