Short Toothbrushes Poems

Faeries with toothbrushes fly into my dreams
Maybe my mouth is not as fresh as it seems?
Faeries with wide open angry gapping gums on moonbeams.
Dropping ugly impacted wisdom teeth in clean mountain streams.
Faeries making fun of my teeth, laugh from high up sunbeams.
Is my dentist sending me subliminal ideas in my nightmarish dreams?...

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.            (A GROSS POEM ABOUT TOOTHBRUSHES AND WHITENERS)



W* T*** R**   WHITE TEETH THE ROMAN WAY.  THEY HAD BRUSHES MADE FROM BONES.
H * E* T* O*W  WORSE THAN THAT IS A FACT LITTLE KNOWN THEIR WHITENER WAS URINE.
I *  E* H* M*A * urine.  Yuck
T*  T*  E* A*Y * urine.  Yuck
E*  H***  N**  * urine.  Yuck
Whitener was urine.  Yuck!!!!...

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It was a day or two before the smells came
Silent moments of déjà vu
In which the walls whitened in sympathy
The tiles laughing their cracked guilt

How did they find me here? Stowaways
In bottles of surgical spirits
Their cold indifference stifling
They watched me from the bathroom cupboard

Gripping this last vestige of panic
Its clinical stench the smell of God
I list the words for fear in lines of nines
Our toothbrushes lying side by side...

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The cat sat on the footstool.
The curtains hang closed.
The toothbrush holder contains two brushes
The cat stretches, jumps down, miaows at the door.
The moon is full
Bush freshens the air
Cat jumps through the doorway
Streetlight illuminates the pathway
Toothbrushes chatter
Water rushes by
Cat softly taps his paws on the glass door
Runs inside, warmth
Lights out
Moving sleepily
Cats eyes wide awake
Piano plays Chopins Noctourne Opus 27 no 2...

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Couple nights ago I dreamed Rhonda came home with about 100 toothbrushes of all sizes small to large, all colors, each one wrapped in clear plastic. She held them out to me like a bouquet of flowers and said to take the one I liked the best. I chose the smallest. 

In the dream I did not question or wonder why she got so many toothbrushes, though I did wonder about that when I woke up. Art project maybe. And why did I want the smallest one? To get between the cracks?...

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