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in collection Can Dentists Be
Trusted?
Anvil Press Poetry, 2004
ISBN No:
0-85646-376-0
Can Dentists
Be Trusted?
you only visit
once,
like the
fellow
in Phibsboro,
Dublin
who
roared
Jesus Fucking Christ
his leg up on
the dentist’s chair
as he pulled
out
my embarrassed
tooth.
Or the one who
told me to lie
about being
pregnant
so I could have
crowns
that I never
said
I
wanted
free on the
NHS.
The man in
Kensington
who told me he
loved
the Irish,
really
then died five
years later
leaving me the
legacy
of an HIV
test.
Others, you have
to stay with.
But if they are
private
they may want
all your teeth
in the
end
you could find
yourself
opening
wide
while laid out
on the chair
like a
corpse
with a coin in
its mouth
travelling
towards the
underworld.
Martina
Evans
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last
update:
contact via
poetry p f
and in
the
shop
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collection
- "The Iniscarra Bar and Cycle
Rest",
Rockingham
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"All Alcoholics Are Charmers" and "Can
Dentists Be Trusted?",
Anvil
novels -
"Midnight Feast", "No Drinking No Dancing No
Doctors", "The Glass Mountain" |
