Toothache
Steel splinter of sudden shattering
pain that overtakes the bone and flesh
around it the way Hitler took Poland,
the way Putin took Crimea, outrageous
and out of bounds, grinding, pounding,
heavy boots and cold, angry pressure,
overwhelming, screaming meanness
in my jaw and ears and eyes and mind,
nothing to contend with rationally,
more than enough to make a person
too weary to fight, open to the drilling.
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