为牙齿写首情诗
by Ma Lan1：我要打掉我的大牙。打掉牙齿有八种方法。
轻轻打。重重打。先轻后重。先重后轻。
2：作为新鲜出炉的2003年歪脖镇桂花诗人，我的牙医是耶鲁大学医学博士。
他坚持要我深度清洗牙齿．
他站在喜马拉牙山教尼泊尔的孩子学刷牙。
刷出阳光，刷出微笑。 现代工业社会讲究微笑。
雪山随流而下。
3：我参加了牙齿俱乐部。会费三百歪脖人民币。
我的介绍人姓名保密，只有二位．一位证人。
他们把我从床上拉出去，打了我一顿。我领到了申请书。再打。
把我牙齿打掉了。我入会了。
4：刷牙的目的。正确刷牙的方法。
饭后刷牙。使用电动牙刷, 。刷牙不宜用力过猛.。
美容牙齿有脱色、贴面、烤瓷三大类。
如果你刷牙的目的不纯洁，那你牙齿不会洁白。
如果你没有正确的刷牙方法，你的牙齿不会态度端正。
5：人的一生共有二副牙齿，还要进行乳、恒牙的交替过程。
人们应该熟知而深刻体会牙齿的先进精神，每颗恒牙的萌出有一定的时间和顺序，并且左右侧同名牙是成对 萌出的。其中，第一颗恒磨牙大约在六岁左右萌出，所称“六龄牙”。
6：我的右边牙齿突然掉了。
没有说明．我找不到说明书。
7：我咬牙切齿。牙齿咬人，咬狗。
难怪牙要落地．天地为之变色。
8：被调查的65名26～39岁的舌癌患者中，有56名患者皆有牙齿向舌侧倾斜．
这可能暗示了国际政治冲突的缘由。暗合了我们左右为难。左右逢源。
9：打掉的牙齿往肚里吞。牙齿就从胃里长出来。
Writing a Love Poem for a Tooth
by Ma Lan1. I want to knock out my molars. There are eight ways to knock them out.
Knock them out lightly. Knock them out hard. First lightly then hard. First hard then lightly.
2. As I am the freshly minted 2003 Poet Laureate of Bent-Neck Village, my dentist is a Yale PhD.
He insisted that I do a deep cleaning.
He stands on the Himalayas teaching Nepalese children to brush their teeth.
Brushing in the sunshine and smiles—modern industrial society takes smiling seriously
The snowy mountains flow downward.
3. I joined a tooth club, the dues were 300 Bent-Neck dollars.
My sponsors’ names are secret, there are only two. One witness.
They pulled me off my bed and beat me up. I picked up my application. They beat me again.
They knocked my teeth out. I became a member.
4. The purpose of a toothbrush. The correct method of brushing your teeth.
Brush after eating. Use an electric toothbrush. Don’t use too much force as you brush.
Cosmetic dentistry has three categories: stain removal, capping, and enameling.
If your goal in brushing your teeth is not pure, your teeth will not get white.
If you do not have the correct toothbrush method, your teeth will not have a proper attitude.
5. According to legend, there are two sets of teeth in our lives; we must make a transition from baby teeth to permanent teeth, or we become inhuman
We must familiarize ourselves with and deeply understand the progressive spirit of teeth
The emergence of each permanent tooth adheres to the time and order of its elders—in the moonlight each tooth and its comrade emerge on the left and right
The first permanent molars emerge at about age six, and so are named “six year molars”
6. One of my right teeth suddenly fell out.
No explanation, and I could not find the instructions.
7. I clenched my teeth. Teeth bite people, bite dogs.
No wonder the tooth wanted to fall out. Heaven and earth changed color because of it.
8. “Of 65 tongue cancer victims surveyed between ages 26 and 39, 56 have teeth tilted toward their tongues.”
This could be a sign of the cause of international political conflicts: implicit agreement disturbed from left and right; advantage gained from both sides.
9. The knocked-out tooth is swallowed down. Then it grows out of the stomach.
translated from Chinese by Charles A. Laughlin