Never again - thought Roger
As he stumbled from his bed,
Recalling the night before
With a somewhat pounding head.
The meeting , the pub
The glasses of wine.
The \"Come on - lets get merry!\"
That he shouted - feeling fine.
The dancing in the street
The whistles from passers by
His night had been a good one
There was nothing to deny
Recalling his stop at the chip shop
For his usual and some more,
That he ate inside the doorway
Of the bargain shop next door.
Then rising to his feet
To catch the 462,
He tripped upon the pavement
And lost his wine stained shoe.
But the night had been a good one
Roger thought now in his head,
Pulling a chair up at the table
To eat his eggy bread.
His children sat beside him
His wife they all were there
But he couldn\'t help but notice
Their amusement and their stare.
He pondered why ,
Then thought no more,
As he really was quite famished
He opened wide - then realised
His teeth - my god they\'d vanished!
He searched the house,
The garden through,
To find that pearly set,
Before deciding he\'d be best to trace
The steps he\'d done as yet.
So off he now did scurry
To search the whole town through,
With a kind of a hop
And a kind of limp
As he only had one shoe.
And just when he was feeling
A little tired and weary,
He came across a homeless guy
Who was looking rather cheery.
He sat beside him for a moment
To think the whole night through
When he noticed that
The man was wearing
His pearly teeth and shoe!
When asked just how
He\'d come across
These items he possessed,
He turned and said quite simply
\"Why - the bargain shop no less\"
He looked quite pleased
With his new found goods
And Roger thought it fair,
To not point out his gummy mouth - and matching shoe
As he\'d bought them fair and square.
And so whenever now
Roger passes by
The man with his teeth and shoe,
He recalls with a smile his past nights out
And the good that they can do !