[創作] A trip to the dentist's: a sestina

[spacedunce5 (CJ)]

A shot of torture shoots through my tooth;
It is surreal how there is no blood.
I fly to my would-be savior the dentist,
Who tells me I must put on hurtful braces.
We set the time for the dreaded appointment,
And I leave, both tooth and heart in pain.

Of tooth is plain, but why in heart throb pain?
For it is the ache of knowing that my tooth
Shall be compulsed to realign by appointment.
To eluct from this fate, I would fain shed blood
Than submit myself to the agony of braces -
But adamant and insisting is my dentist.

What heart of stone lies in this man called dentist;
How nonchalantly he prescribes me pain
Enthralled on me by malevolent braces,
A modern Inquisition of my tooth -
The only element in lack is blood,
Yet it shall come duly with my appointment.

At last comes the arduous appointment
With that devil-in-white known as dentist.
By lack of sleep, my eyes are filled with blood;
Sleepless nights, unconquerable anxiety of pain,
And worry, endless worry, for my tooth
And its fate at the unflinching chains euphemised as braces.

The axeman, he takes out the dreaded braces
Not three minutes into this gruesome appointment;
He shows me how the contraption fetters the tooth.
Then, he who strikes terror into my heart, this dentist,
Quick as a prestidigitator, my pain
Takes away, with nary a drop of blood.

And so, formerly champing to give him blood
Over these infernal crown-chains named braces,
Seeing as it made to take flight my pain
Along with my horror-filled view of the appointment,
I forgive this honorable man esteemed as dentist.
My sincerest gratitude comes wholly from the tooth.

Who says pain must go in hand with blood?
Enclosing my tooth in the cold metal braces
Was the best appointment I have ever made with my dentist.

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james bond (verb)
to commit a difficult or seemingly impossible act with the utmost efficiency,
achieving all goals with no personal loss, maintaining a cool, calm demeanor,
and topping it all off with class, a cheeky catchphrase, and, if at all
possible, the occasional explosion and some hot sex.
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