BITTEN LIP:

It’s all down to the infamous family teeth, the ones from
Dad’s side of the family. You should meet cousin Ian, he’s
the first I remember with ‘the teeth’. Photos from the 60’s
tell the whole story, look ’em up, proper ‘Timothy Winters’.
Dentists all say, “it’s because you’ve got too many”.
Photographers say,”When the light catches you that way
it looks like there’s one missing – don’t smile with your
mouth open” (My mate Perou has a trick up his sleeve for that).
I used to be self conscious, about teeth & a lot more.
Stuff that nature & the family jean pool gifted me, but what
you gonna do? There’s only so many teeth I can get removed
to relieve the pressure on the rest of the crew. No, if I got
paranoid about the ivory it’d be the nose & ears next, & I
got over them a long time ago.

(K)