Tina Turner's open smile radiated a thousand miles.
Like her wigs, her teeth said 'fake youth' to me.
Her teeth were that bright for being bleached.
They were
the advert of their time for falsity.
Not that the gaps in
The Queen Mother's grin,
or her taste in hats, were necessarily more genuine.
Thirty years on, and however hard dentists tried
the future of false teeth could not be brighter.
The edited highlights of costly dental surgery
are now integral to lifestyle make-over shows,
which are all advertising because the show
is practically paid for by the expertise being filmed,
the more to make the changes displayed seem easy.
Life is to Lifestyle what a book is to it's cover-
for a sense of life to show through
their has to be a correspondence between them.
I became the slave to fashion that I am
when I embraced NHS spectacles,
greying facial hair and early male baldness.
What folks can do if they do it themselves is amazing.
