Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

How I laughed at my mother’s false teeth,
As they foamed in the waters beneath.
But now comes the reckoning?
It’s me they are beckonin’
Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.

Paraphrase: When the poet’s mother put her false teeth in the foam, she just laughed at her and her false teeth. But now the time of reckoning has come. Those false teeth of the mother remind her that it is her turn now. The poet regrets that she neglected her teeth and wishes she’d looked after them.

(a) What did the poet do when she looked at the false teeth of her mother?

(b) How has the time for reckoning come for the poet?

(c) Find the phrase in the extract which means ‘take care of.