See Me Tick

Your teeth were white, full of fluoride like sharks'

I wondered if they would glow in the dark

Like those Life-Savers Wint-O-Green sparks

I want to ask if I'll get to find out

But when I talk that's never what it's about

It's just inane garbage in my brain

Like did you know life savers

Light up like lightbulbs

If you chew them in the dark

It's crystal collapsing

Not fire catching

And I hope you'll find my facts interesting

So I never have to tell you my thoughts

So I never have to show you enough

To see me tick

I read it only works with Wint-O-Green

They're pretty cheap right after Hallowe'en

But you told me that you'd already seen

So like a kid whose best joke has been told

I lost my cool, swallowed one of them whole

I could have died but I'm breathing right through the hole

Now, did you know life savers

Look just like life buoys

And their inventor had a son

Who drowned himself at sea

Before he turned thirty three

I hope you'll find my facts interesting

So I never have to tell you my thoughts

So I never have to show you enough

To see me tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick