Last Straw for SOCS, May 17, 2025

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Last Straw

I’d make conversation but my upper plate
seems to be grinding my lower of late.
I fear there’s a fissure that’s preventing their matching
and somehow my back teeth just seem to be catching
and locking which creates a problem in chewing,
so eating’s another thing I won’t be doing.

I’m bungling everything done by my jaws.
At talking and eating I’m taking a pause.
For now I’ll just listen and watch you eat pie.
If you give me a straw, I’ll simply get by
by sipping my tea and nodding my head
in avid agreement with everything said.

I could have stayed home and stared at the wall,
but I couldn’t face not seeing y’all,
so I will just sit here and soak in the news,
forsaking my own chance to thrill and amuse.
Until I’ve seen my dentist, you’ll just have to wait
for the juicy story I was going to relate!

The SOCS prompt this week is “straw.”

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

14 thoughts on “Last Straw for SOCS, May 17, 2025”

  6. Marilyn Armstrong's avatarMarilyn Armstrong

    I don’t how much truth there is in that poem but MY teeth are a mess. I’m not sure I have anywhere enough money to fix them. I worry about them but I also have to manage to figure out how to deal with them. The price of a GOOD dentist is beyond most people’s ability to pay.

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      1. Marilyn Armstrong's avatarMarilyn Armstrong

        Garry has absolutely refused to get the official ID. I, on the other hand, have mine so if I can come up with the price of the flight, it might be worth it. Well, I would also actually need to put some money together which has gotten harder with each passing rise in prices. An awful lot of the problems of getting old are linked to fixed incomes that, after 20 years, are a lot less than they used to be. I have heard that the dentists are also good from others who have gone there so I shall think about it. Just me since Garry can’t fly without official credentials.

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        3. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          Make a list of what you need done and what it would cost in the states and I’ll see what it would be here.. whether it would warrant the plane cost.. or perhaps you could find a dentist nearer the border. I think 24 years ago the cost of dental work was about 1/3 of what it was in the states.

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