5/21/2003

Everyone
stood around
their eyes
on their feet
their feet
on the ground
just making sure
so many fooled
in spite of
knowing better
into believing
the tooth fairy
was making
substantial deposits
in their personal accounts
for each tooth
that came out
and got dutifully placed
beneath their pillow
before sacking out
at the end
of the day.
Overcome by
one of our
less fine qualities
everywhere you look
you can see
those who
had removed
every tooth
in their head
in anticipation of
a vast
tooth fairy fortune.
It is not easy
to know
who
was fooling
whom
but
there are
a lot more people
now
having trouble
chewing their food.