Smile for the Camera
for D.B.A.

truth telling
to tell the truth
truth be told

honest about the state she's in
about how she feels

though she wears a minimal amount
of make up
though her eye brows are altered
are modified

with red carnation above left ear
in her extra-carefully braided hair

face she wears
is not a mask

it is her own face she wears
herself she displays, bares

disarms who is looking at her
take off putting on
she instructs, advises without a word

truth be told, she tells truth
chilly to drink this time of year

Ovaltine with sweet milk time
or Milo time or coco time

a mug of one of these
for her as well
to put a smile upon her face

like the taste of truth she pours
out pours, fills my cup with

way to town from where she is
a bus rout, seventy-five cents fee

she's a school child still


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2010
2:08 p.m. 27.02.10