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May 2013
Your mechanical smile
never reaches your eyes
you wear it blankly
for social cues
as if that expression
is a Venetian mask
for Life’s masquerade
it’s the kind of smile
one flashes for photographs
but I know
that kind of smile
you use it
to hold your universe together
M B H
Written by
M B H
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   Santiago, --- and Anderson M
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