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The Chair

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"A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet it's powers can vanquish kingdoms." – Og Mandino

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A Sam Scott poem:
31st May 2024
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I'm frozen here
And shall remain
While anaesthetic
Eases pain 

My lips are fat
My tongue just lies
No words untrue
While spittle flies 

A mouth aghast
While tools engage 
And rubber fingers
Squeak outrage

Construction
Of the oral kind
So mastication 
Is refined

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Tonye George

Date: 7/17/2024 3:58:00 AM

Amazing words Sam. Very beautiful picture. Going to the dentist comes with so much pain. One of the worst pains to experience. I hope I find the courage to go see mine.

Sam Scott
Date: 7/22/2024 3:12:00 AM

Dear Tonye - I do really appreciate your visit, not to the chair, but to my poem. Blessings to you S :) x

Deb M

Date: 6/2/2024 1:44:00 PM

Oh my Sam….l just looked at the picture first and my stomach dropped! Ha then l read the poem and it dropped even more!!…..l am one of those people who cannot and l mean cannot ha stand going to the dentist! A very effective well written poem….a job well done!! Hehe….Debx

Deb M
Date: 6/3/2024 6:35:00 AM

No trauma Sam….l just walk passed a dentist and heyho the stomach drops….just a big bubbikins!! Debx

Sam Scott
Date: 6/3/2024 5:41:00 AM

Deb, I am so sorry to have caused you such trauma and a visceral reaction too! Thankfully my dentist is a great guy. Bless you for your comment, though, best not fave this one.. Sam ;) x

Daniel Henry Rodgers

Date: 6/2/2024 12:31:00 PM

Dear Sam, your dental scenes are brilliant! Frozen lips, spittle flying, rubber fingers squeaking outrage - brilliantly captures the experience. "Construction of the oral kind" is clever wordplay. Fantastic portrayal through unique perspective! Blessings, My Friend, Daniel

Sam Scott
Date: 6/3/2024 5:38:00 AM

Very kind of you to say Daniel - there is a lot of thinking time in that chair!! Sam :)

Funom Makama

Date: 6/2/2024 10:48:00 AM

so well technically elaborate. Are you a dentist?

Sam Scott
Date: 6/3/2024 5:38:00 AM

I have an engineering background and so these details do not escape me, perhaps that is why I give the impression. The roles are probably quite similar in practical terms. Thanks for your astute observation! Sam :)