Friday, December 4, 2009

Tooth Fairy


When I was five,
the tooth fairy got high,
and knocked out a pair
of my baby teeth.
I didn’t dare put them
under my pillow.

By Dennis J. Bernstein

1 comment:

The Bijou Poetry Review said...

DENNIS J BERNSTEIN is a contributing editor with the San Francisco-based Pacific News Service, and the host/producer of "Flashpoints," a daily radio news magazine heard on Pacifica radio. His artist books, co-authored with Warren Lehrer, are in the Special Books Collections of the Museum of Modern art in New York City and other major museums around the world. Bernstein’s poetry has recently appeared in the Texas Observer, New York Quarterly, The Progressive, ZYZZYVA and Ars Medica .

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