04-30-2022, 01:42 PM
O humble bristled instrument
who takes your place in our hands
most comfortably, like a magic wand
banishing tartar and plaque,
if only your duties you could exercise
without attentive intervention!
If only we need open our mouths
far from a sink or lying down---
if only those nine minutes you demand
did not also engage our hands!
Then you should be like a prophet's staff,
saving not few but all from dental plagues.
who takes your place in our hands
most comfortably, like a magic wand
banishing tartar and plaque,
if only your duties you could exercise
without attentive intervention!
If only we need open our mouths
far from a sink or lying down---
if only those nine minutes you demand
did not also engage our hands!
Then you should be like a prophet's staff,
saving not few but all from dental plagues.