Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The Haunted Electric Toothbrush - doggerel

 

(I don't know why this program has suddenly decided to double-space. Perhaps it is conspiring with my electric toothbrush)


Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

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.

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