Girl With the Crooked Tooth

In A and P this pretty girl with a funny nose
used to tell me she didn't want to graduate,
-I don't think I got more than a B or B minus in A and P,
     I'd spent too much of my brain
studying the funny nose on this girl's face,

to begin at the beginning...if the right eye-tooth
is the same as the right lateral incisor, I'd be surprised
since I wasted so much of my time fantasizing,
see, there was this pretty girl with a funny nose, you see?

and I don't remember her name, but she wasn't you
and this poem is about you and your crooked tooth,
a-ha, you'd hate that I mentioned your crooked tooth
in some little love note I'd written you,

Now, would you still let me tickle your tongue and teeth with mine--let me taste you inside? I'd still know the space that deviates,
I'd know it by day-dream and in dream-sleep,
it's a little to the left and it turns in,
the tiniest concave spade;

and you hide it when you laugh--sometimes when you smile,
and it's a sin how you'd hide anything from me.