Timothy Kleiser

2 months ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Timothy Kleiser

What teeth are clinging to my jaw my mama gets the credit for. She liked to whoop me any time I went to bed before I brushed. Some nights, she’d play Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” My toothbrush was my hammer of the gods, she’d say, and if I stopped my hammering before Robert Plant stopped his, she had a hammer of her own and she would plant it on my backside. That made brushing fun.