Dental Coverage
Let's workshop this poem about a mother in poverty—poverty of perhaps prostitute proportions—and her makeshift routine of draining her infected gum cyst with skilled sucking maneuvers.
Dental Coverage Jaw clenched and left cheek flexed in a tropey grin (cockeyed, like a 16-bit beach bro), bicuspid gum cyst crushed by an irate thumb— between her teeth and over her tongue a hard-up mom sucks ritual spurts of sharp air (tch tch, tch) to drain that festering sour.