The Tooth About Tooth
In the beginning there was tooth
One tooth and no other
Then about the time of Cane
According to the ancient text
Another tooth grew out of nothing
Similar to the chicken and the egg debate
but a different kind of debacle
Unsolved to this unholy day
About the mouth on the other side of it
Spoken but not said
Grew yet another tooth with teeth about
Destiny revealed three teeth in all
Called by name “teeth” from that day on
Until they fell out of favor
The tooth about tooth is true
I saw it with my own two eyes
One tooth left, one on the other left
A center tooth in the center... That's right
Call it what you will between each other
A story, a non tooth debate, a fake
There were other teeth about the mouth
Some were quite sharp, biting, even tiny
This tooth was about pain, an abscess
In need of pulling at the moment
With the absence of malice or malicious intent
Brought on by the ultimate sin of sugar indulgence
Decay came about but will not be tolerated
Tooth about tooth can be frightening too
Dentistry has come a long way these days
Given the ways of oral hygiene cleansing
Let us pray
By the intercession of angelic forces
Some teeth were saved
Let us pray
The one true tooth was doomed
Decay set in on the chosen root
Nothing is worse than a cavity
Holes in the head are not holy
Should not be empty or void
Children should not eat candy
Should not be consumed by truth
The tooth should be considered first
There was, is and always will be
One true tooth to suffer through
The mouth knows what is coming
About other teeth we can not vouch
But about the tooth about the center
It is the one tooth that must come out
Extraction!.... Ouch!
The time of Cane has long passed
Nova-Cane has come at last, Amen
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