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Something Like a Smile Lee Giesecke |
Something Like a Smile In your smile I see your teeth. I know that teeth are not quite skeletal, but there is something primeval about them — not like your shaped eyebrows and pampered skin; not like your thoughts current with the latest mags; not like your children beautiful in every way. Form follows function in the teeth: molars for mashing, incisors for inciting caution, fillings to remind us of civilization. They go back a bit, these teeth — not that you are old, rather that all of us are. The smile is a snarl of acceptance. Thank God I am accepted, even if only for a passing second. [Return to Psychopoetica home page] ©The contents of this page are copyright protected.
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