shoppers enter the grinning mouth

plunder the rows of stacked teeth

reaching in for plaque,

the dentist's pin spots pinging

leaving no possibility of dark rest

instead

needs, desires constantly

put to the test,

the mouth and the teeth

grotesquely brightly expressed

 

and the trolleys like probing implements

applied doing the marble glide.

At the end of the day long session

everyone spitted out,

a little pain,

a little gain.