What was this poem?
June 20, 2011 10:51 AM Subscribe
Please help me remember a poem about teeth.
If I'm remembering right, it was a shorter piece. There may have been a dentist involved, but the poem was about the narrator's teeth hurting. At the end, we learn it's because she has been smiling so much--the final lines are something like "And that's how much I love my son."
(It isn't as cheesy and overwrought as it sounds! The understatement was what made it so compelling.)
I must have read this 8-12 years ago, found it at the library, and am almost certain that it came from a book about how to write poetry. Specifically, I think it might have been this one, though I want to say that the book had clouds on the cover.
Thanks, MeFi! This has been haunting me for quite a while.
If I'm remembering right, it was a shorter piece. There may have been a dentist involved, but the poem was about the narrator's teeth hurting. At the end, we learn it's because she has been smiling so much--the final lines are something like "And that's how much I love my son."
(It isn't as cheesy and overwrought as it sounds! The understatement was what made it so compelling.)
I must have read this 8-12 years ago, found it at the library, and am almost certain that it came from a book about how to write poetry. Specifically, I think it might have been this one, though I want to say that the book had clouds on the cover.
Thanks, MeFi! This has been haunting me for quite a while.
This classic from Pam Ayres?
http://www.itsbullfrog.com/guests/ayres/teeth.htm
posted by roofus at 2:19 PM on June 20, 2011
http://www.itsbullfrog.com/guests/ayres/teeth.htm
posted by roofus at 2:19 PM on June 20, 2011
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posted by AAAAAThatsFiveAs at 10:59 AM on June 20, 2011