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The Curious Case of Lady Barratt's Teeth

A legendary sweet tooth, had Lady Felicity Barratt

So swift towards the sugar bowl, so wary of the carrot

She dined on only trifle from a honey coated spoon

But tooth decay accosted her and left her in a swoon

 

By the time she turned just twenty, her two front teeth were gone

By thirty she was running short and on her final one

When that fell out, she sought a dentist, promptly one arrived

She opened up her grizzly mouth and in the fella dived

 

He took a cast and took his leave with dentures to be hewn

With satisfaction guaranteed by Friday afternoon

And never did the lady have a reason to suspect

The secret intervention of an evil dental sect

 

By bribing several bakeries and sweetie shops and stalls

A dossier had been compiled within their sacred halls

For crimes against good dentistry were nothing short of sin

Their retribution must be swift or people might join in

 

They cast her teeth from coffin nails beneath a devil's moon

With Jack the Ripper's upper set, extracted from his tomb

Then polished with the handkerchief of Hitler's former cleaner

Stored in Machiavelli's purse, to make them all the meaner

 

Upon that self same Friday, at the very cusp of noon

One Doctor Bingo Rogers and his burly hired goon

Came knocking at her premises with dental kit and drills

With a mission to sedate her and to exercise their skills

 

They knocked her out with ethanol and chloroform and air

And strapped her to a hastily erected dentist's chair

The evil teeth were lodged in place and ******* into her gums

The bill was quite extortionate, for monumental sums

 

The shamanic orthodontist, with his henchman in his wake

A martyr to the vegetable and nemesis of cake

Was keen to see his handiwork and kept a watchful eye

For curious occurrences, as days went slowly by

 

By Christmas there was nothing, until on New Year's Eve

Her teeth got uncooperative and forced the girl to leave

They dragged her by her dainty face and led her to the shops

She stood and munched on sugar canes and giant lollipops

 

They stuffed her face with chocolates, still nestled in their packets

And then a rack of nylon shirts and seven leather jackets

On every size of shoe, she munched; from sixes up to twelves

She nibbled through the party food and gnawed upon the shelves

 

Then off she sped, into the street, to pursue a passing horse

Dragged along by wicked teeth and supernatural force

But dentures lack in vision, and especially at pace

So when she caught it by the foot she caught it in the face

 

She skidded to a grizzly halt with arms and legs all twisted

And next to her, a note with all her dental errors listed

So beware the wrath of dentists and obey when they command

And sleep with one eye open and a carrot close to hand

 

For though our poor Felicity was buried good and hard

Despite floral cupcake with the Dental Cult's regard

And though her body, to this day, lies safely in the ground

The horse escaped that evening and the teeth were never found...

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