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Those Smiles

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  An astronaut
looks down on earth
  over the pacific
and saw a green, mottled
  brownish, disheveled dog.
That was no pearl.
And that was certainly no Orient.
The astronaut saw
Two golden arches dotting the ground
A green mermaid in an orb
A bee without a stinger
People always smiling
But with guns hidden in their cars
Just in case you cut them in the road
And the astronaut heard
  a loud BANG! BANG!
People still smiling,
Joking,
   In happy noontime shows
     In sad t.v. shows
They nudge, and then they nod
and then they smile
that evil smile
   that evil smile
     that is kind of grinning
b u t  n ooooo t grinning
  but is just a smile
that is not a smile.

  The astronaut zooms his lens.
and realizes that in the Orient
which is really not an Orient
  because there really is no Orient
   that the so called pearl
was a dog
  which is worse than a dog
    which is a mottled dog.
Robbed of his/her/it beauty.
  By the same smiling people
   who smiles that smile
     that is not a smile.
The astronaut saw his kind
mingling with the people
who smiles that smile.
He saw that they were given
Apollo's leaves
   and a golden orb.
The astronaut also saw
   That Attila The Hun's bastards
And so does Yuan Mei's
  Have infested
   the people
     who smiles that smile
  that is not a smile.
And yet the people who smilesthatsmilethatisnotasmile
is entirely happy about it
   they think that they are the new epitome of the people
whosmilesthatsmilethatisnotasmile
and so the mottled dog
is not pearl
and certainly not in the Orient
   but a mottledmottled dog.

Then the astronaut taught
What will Maguayen say?
What will happen
  to that dog
   born out of fiction
that dog
   which is worse than a dog
withpeople whosmilesthatsmilethatisnotasmile
lost in a blur
   in a whirlwind
      in a blur
           in a whirlwind
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Then the astronaut said
  they are inventing
          that dog which is more than worse than a dog
  a worse than a dog, a worse than a blind dog
   sniffing
       sniffing, smelling, searching
   for a scent
      that will lead him/her/it to the pound
so those people
whosmilesthatsmilethatisnotasmile
    can make a real smile
      that is a real smile
    and not a grin
  but a real smile
  and the dog
will not be a dog
but another astronaut.
Really called the 'That So Called Pearl From The Orient Is A Dog'.
Felt so angsty, don't know why.

March 7, 2007.
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JoeDillon's avatar
Very creative and thought-provoking....very nice werk!.!... although i do hope you feel better....