(I don't know why this program has suddenly decided to double-space. Perhaps it is conspiring with my electric toothbrush)
Lawrence Hall, HSG
The Haunted
Electric Toothbrush
This morning
at dawn
I was alone
I heard a moan
A mysterious
groan
A ceaseless
drone
It wasn’t
the ‘phone
It was my
toothbrush
It had on
its own
Turned itself
on
My Philips Sonicare ™© and (legal protections in a peach tree) has
done me good service for years. This morning it turned itself on atop a glass
shelf with other little bottles of this and tubes of that, making an unusual
moaning / groaning / droning that took me some time to sort out. It is a great
device; when it finally hands in its lunch pail (as Bertie Wooster would say) I
will buy another just like it.
