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Waiting Room (Free verse) by jessicazee
I can’t wait for the laughing gas. I ripple pages of last week’s People, a little boy in shoes that cost my month in wages reads Stone Soup, is that still a magazine? his mom tallies her Glamour sex quiz with a borrowed pencil, she erases things a lot, I hear a drill. Doctor Greenberg, prepping shiny picks, needles, a fluorescent light bulb in the lamp keeps flickering, it washes us out. The boy’s virginal Garanimals are rumpled, his incomplete molars fleshy holes sought out by the pink tip of his tongue, fingering in his pocket a Sacajawea left under his pillow by the fairy, the fairy who deals in teeth. I have had no cavities, a genetic blessing like the soft curl in the boy’s fine hair. But today I have an appointment, surgery to extract useless impacted leftovers of days when bones needed gnawing. I want to wiggle my tooth again, eat an apple and leave a canine in its flesh, whistle through a hole in my mouth. My name is called. I await the laughing gas.

Up the ladder: Trapped Rat
Down the ladder: ROAD BLOB!!!

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Arithmetic Mean: 7.6666665
Weighted score: 5.717177
Overall Rank: 1900
Posted: August 7, 2005 12:40 AM PDT; Last modified: August 7, 2005 12:40 AM PDT
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[8] Bethy @ 24.222.32.208 | 7-Aug-05/5:48 AM | Reply
this is great!!! I love it... Bethy :)
[9] XOXScottishgrlXOX @ 205.188.116.139 | 7-Aug-05/5:34 PM | Reply
That's pretty good it just makes me really not want to go to the dentist!!!!
[10] zodiac @ 86.108.12.51 | 9-Aug-05/2:16 AM | Reply
You're currently the best writer on the site. For what it's worth. An honest-to-goodness 10.
[n/a] jessicazee @ 64.12.117.5 > zodiac | 11-Aug-05/6:51 PM | Reply
What a nice thing to say. Thanks so much! I needed that today, and I may even be motivated to finally get all my shit together & make a little book. Thank you!
[n/a] jessicazee @ 64.12.117.5 > jessicazee | 14-Aug-05/1:19 AM | Reply
Wha?
[10] zodiac @ 212.38.134.51 > jessicazee | 14-Aug-05/1:59 AM | Reply
Oops, sorry! That posted on the wrong poem. Sorry, sorry. I'm deleting it now.
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