From my mouth, to my ear, to my brain,<\/p>\n
such unbearable, excruciating, pulsating pain.<\/p>\n
A cavity, it’s all about,<\/p>\n
your wisdom, said the dentist, we must pull out.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I am a strong man, if you are not aware,<\/p>\n
but dentists, they scare me, I do declare!<\/p>\n
The needles and drills on the side, looks intimidating,<\/p>\n
enough to almost send me in a frenzy of fainting<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“Open your mouth wide, you’ll just feel a prick”<\/p>\n
“Oh my word, the needle is the size of an ice-pick!”<\/p>\n
My mouth goes numb as I clutched my wife’s hand in a vice grip of panic.<\/p>\n
This scary dentist makes me sick, sick, sick.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
With a heave and a pull and a crack and a blood curdling cry,<\/p>\n
My wisdom is out, the experience, almost enough to make me die.<\/p>\n
“Spit in this bowl, if you have any dribble”<\/p>\n
“Unge! Unge! Unge! ” is all my numb mouth can mumble.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I am now less of a whizz and more dumb!<\/p>\n
Bereft am I of any wisdom!<\/p>\n
Wisdom-less!<\/p>\n
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