Well, grinned anyway, Max. Have long been told to use the soft bristle, &, even with some wear, mine are all still there, too…
Doug
On Aug 20, 2014, at 7:03 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I laughed, Max, at truth/ tooth, which I presume I was meant to. Do you need the parentheses in stanza the third? And 'baring', 'bared' in stanza two?
>
> My manly father presented me one Christmas with an electric tooth brush. What am I to make of that? I used it twice and cupboarded it. He still asks after it.
>
> Bill
>
>> On 20 Aug 2014, at 10:29 pm, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Back when hard-bristle toothbrushes
>> seemed manly,
>> a very senior dentist said to me:
>> keep up that brisk brushing
>> you’ll be pushing
>>
>> back your gums, baring
>> your teeth so you look like
>> an aging bulldog. He bared
>> his teeth in a fierce grin,
>> a snarl that scared.
>>
>> Young then, I made a mental
>> note and changed my dental
>> hygiene (without ever flossing
>> much, a point no-one
>> was much stressing).
>>
>> Old now, lucky to be
>> here, my bathroom mirror
>> image grins back at me,
>> gratified, in truth,
>> to be so long in the tooth.
>
Douglas Barbour
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