* The Sandman's Dream Journal o/***

Toothpaste

There was a black guy who was shown the germs on his teeth with an ultra-violet light the way they show in the commercials. He had been using "Ultra Crest" or "Ultra Sensidine" or something. He wasn't happy.

Now we are at someone's house. He looks in the mirror and holds the light up to his teeth because he is freaking out about his teeth. He kept saying something to himself as he shined the light on his upper teeth, then his lower teeth. I think he kept saying the name of his toothpaste.

As he alternated from his top teeth to his bottom teeth, I saw in the mirror that his top teeth were REALLY green and his bottom teeth were yellow.

He started scrambling for different toothpastes. He piled up toothpaste from three different tubes on his toothbrush. Then I started looking for my tube to brush my teeth.

Then there was a lady in the room. She said she once heard that if your teeth were really bad, you could take toothpaste or mayonnaise and snort it and get it to your teeth that way.

I thought that was really cool. I pictured it going to my stomach, being digested, and getting to my teeth through the blood stream.

I started brushing my teeth. I had an old style brush I used to have when I was a kid. The head was bent like a dentists mirror. It broke in my mouth so I had to brush very carefully to keep just a little pressure on my teeth.