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Analysis and comments on A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux

Comment 6 of 6, added on April 22nd, 2013 at 11:55 PM.
Its always necessary keep your teeth clean

A tooth (plural teeth) is a cheap, calcified, whitish build ground in the
jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and worn to break down food. Some
animals, particularly carnivores, also take teeth for the purpose hunting
or for defensive purposes. The roots of teeth are covered by gums. Teeth
are not made of bone, but fairly of multiple tissues of varying density and
hardness.

The ordinary make-up of teeth is nearly the same across the vertebrates,
although there is considerable variation in their show up and position. The
teeth of mammals drink profound roots, and this design is also rest in some
fish, and in crocodilians. In most teleost fish, regardless how, the teeth
are fastened to the outer rise of the bone, while in lizards they are
attached to the inner side of the jaw by harmonious side. In cartilaginous
fish, such as sharks, the teeth are attached around tough ligaments to the
hoops of cartilage that accumulate the jaw.





Uncotoovefe from Paraguay
Comment 5 of 6, added on November 23rd, 2011 at 10:05 AM.
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I told my grandmother how you heepld. She said, “bake them a cake!”

Staysha from Palestine
Comment 4 of 6, added on February 17th, 2010 at 12:00 AM.
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Comment 3 of 6, added on May 14th, 2009 at 3:45 AM.

This poem got to be in the "Poetry in Motion" series in Manhattan and read
by millions of commuters? Well, that's good - I like it. It's a very city
poem, recalling struggling immigrants and parental weariness, a resigned
acceptance that strikes me as being somewhat foreign to country people.
It's amusing and "smart" in the way that Bill Cosby is - that thing he says
about how parents die because they're tired, or they're ready.

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Comment 2 of 6, added on May 26th, 2007 at 4:19 PM.

as a 73 year old grandmother I read this poem on a New York City bus. It
so moved me that, lacking paper and pencil, I memorized it. I loved " your
feet are sore" but the last line really hit hard. dds

dorothy staller from United States
Comment 1 of 6, added on April 3rd, 2007 at 5:14 PM.

So simple a poem, and yet profoundly true and touching. I felt the sadness,
being a father of a growings teenage daughter, and realizing, yes she is
taller, and I am older, and I must let her go. Thank you Thomas Lux.

Ray from United States

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Poet: Thomas Lux
Poem: A Little Tooth
Volume: The Drowned River
Year: 1990
Added: Feb 20 2003
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