Eating Crow ... and Flossing Afterward

Just now I spotted my missing dental floss

Sitting on my desk

Way at the back

Next to the unopened package of mirror holders

That I was going to use to put up the mirror in our bedroom

The mirror that is now in the garage behind the closet doors

From my son’s room

That have been sitting there half primed for a week or two

Certainly longer than the floss has been sitting here

Where I left it

While I angrily tore apart the bathroom looking for where someone had hidden it

While I neglected flossing for three days

While I finally dug out more floss

Complaining all the time

While I sat down to write this poem and

Spied it

Just now I wrote a poem about my missing dental floss and

Now I’m going to go use it