Something Fun in the Aftermath..

Pick a day...any day in Washington

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Open Wide

These days when it seems not eye to eye we much see

I believe there’s something about which we can agree

And that’s on the one professional we least like to see

with any - if at all – regularity.

With those twice-a-year cleanings, I always comply,

But I’m not going to sit here and to your face lie.

No, the love of the drill is not a thing I can fake

Oh, to have just brushed and flossed more

and eaten less chocolate cake.

I lose my nerve as down the canal the files go

Like a gondolier, just more excruciatingly slow.

In claiming as mine a real gold crown

I would need to rob the biggest bank in town.

I’m bracing for the day when Sissy’s teeth are straight

And praying Junior’s can avoid a similar fate

Otherwise, it’s back to hours working overtime late.

I’d rather not become indentured to

anyone or anything

Yet, those implants are such a

chunk of cha-ching

to get them means pawning

my very best bling!

Maybe I’ll solve the problem by making

my teeth, oh so white

that I mesmerize deer as

I drive home at night.

Photo by Photos & Paintings by Catanna

Always for you,

M.A. Hastings

Poetry Backstories

In light of last Friday’s White House ambush and Tuesday night’s longer than most feature films and certainly just as fictional address to Congress, I thought perhaps something with a bit of levity was due. So I wrote “Open Wide” in celebration of National Dentist Day today, just for you.

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M.A. Hastings