< Act I
Published September 5 2023
Greenpoint, New York City

When A ****** Smiles

I don't like it when you smile

It reminds me that you are real

You are real and you are pretty

I mean you are always pretty, always have been

Don't get me wrong

But it's the sudden realness that upsets me

When you look at a me with a wooden face

I can live with that

It's like staring at the sky

The sky is pretty, oh so pretty

But I can't touch it

When you smile though

It's as if a chunk of the sky

Fell in my lap

How could that not make me

Space bound?