Seven Haiku for a Departed Tooth
 
Tooth number thirty
Lost its filling, always hurt
Tooth and pain gone now
 
Bad tooth. What to do?
Root canal? I don't think so.
Extraction action
     
An "abridged" comment
Brush your teeth every day
Or gap in the back
     
Dentist was perplexed
Endodontist helps too late
Nothing left to save
     
Root canals are easy
Says young dentist to patient
Now both know better

Dentists need practice
Experience teaches them
But why me, O Lord?
     
Oral surgeon knows
Dentist's failure his success
"Mind the gap" he says