Poetry Superhighway April 2023 Poems

Dental Torture Blues

Dental torture blues

Sitting in the dental chair
undergoing dental surgery
while the dentist probes
and tortures me
with his instruments of pain.

The frank zappa song
plays over and over
the torture never stops
the torture never stops.

And I think of the mad dentist
in the little house of horrors
the Jack Nicolson character
who screams pain is good!

As he assaults his patients
doing root canals
without anesthesia.

And so, I endure the torture
of the dentist
in the vain hope
I can save my teeth.

Until the next time
I undergo mental torture
the song faces away
and I slowly recover.

Then as I leave
I am confronted with the bill
and the song roars back to life.

The torture never stops
the torture never stops.
Written after seeing the dentist © 4 years ago, j

Write a poem about a body part. As an example, Lucille Clifton wrote a poem called “Homage to my hips” which you can read here: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/homage-to-my-hips/
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