Diane Hine - No Elegy for Plaster Teeth (Part 2) lyrics

Sent to serve as anvils 'gainst which craftsmen shape their ware Chipped and scored and hacked and sawed, no heed paid to their care Molten wax dipped, metal-wire clipped hooks from which are hung Boiled sweet acrylic drapes fine polished, smooth to tongue. Bearing coronets they wait, mute servants 'gainst the wall Nurses take their hard-won crowns to patients to install Duty done, at last returned to place where they were born Woman eyes them ruefully, they look a touch forlorn. Buries them without a word 'mongst refuse of like kind Empathy is not required for things which have no mind Words will not be needed when the woman's pa**ed away She and plaster teeth are equal universal clay.