The Art of Dental Floss

Here's a tangled thready mass of dental floss Glued on some canvas board with gesso Each layer of the spider's snare dyed a different color One layer dried then layered o'er another Oh the marl-morning sour-gut history The saw-toothed plaque-frozen mystery! There's corn beans and sirloin on the string Microscopic V-8 a thermal-digested chicken wing Good bad medium days Hidden 'neath and in filet Here's Jackson Pollock with his dripping Splashing abstract expressionism Pollock though a genius failed In splashing paint pale after pale To realize a more thrifty less messy way To say through teeth what he had to say