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Open Poetry #46

Losing Money Losing Teeth

Toerag
Member Ascendant

since 1999-07-29

Posts 5622
Ala bam a

0 posted 2010-05-14 08:30 AM

When I was a lad of ten,
I worked all day and saved,
The dollar that I earned,
For a rainy day.

I kept it 'neath my pillow,
And I swear this is the truth,
Woke up the following morning,
My dollar became a tooth.

Balladeer

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

1 posted 2010-05-14 08:47 AM

You just ain't right in the head, boy

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

2 posted 2010-05-18 01:35 PM

Clever little twist!!

threadbear
Senior Member

since 2008-07-10

Posts 817
Indy

3 posted 2010-05-18 02:19 PM

kinda makes you wonder if you put
something else you didn't need
like a relative
under the pillow
...what would happen....

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

4 posted 2010-05-23 06:48 PM

This literally made me laugh out loud - and Balladeer's response made me laugh harder.

A

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

5 posted 2010-05-23 09:56 PM

Well that is more true than you know - my dollars are sure becoming teeth I tell you, and I begrudge that dentist every single penny.

sandgrain
Member Elite

since 1999-09-21

Posts 3662
Sycamore, IL, USA

6 posted 2010-05-23 10:04 PM

Nothing like a good smile from you before bedtime.

Since age 19, I've had both upper and lower plates.  Once my 9 year old grandson asked how I got enough money to treat the entire family, about 22 of us, to dinner at a restaurant.  I told him I took my teeth out and put them under my pillow and the fairy left the $$$.  Then she saw my teeth weren't real so she just left them there.  Now, at 31 years old, he still tells that story.

I'll have to share this piece with him.

  Rae

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

7 posted 2010-05-24 11:20 AM

Yo Toerag,

I've often wondered how that tooth thingy worked.

Bobby

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