Can I tell you a secret?
Sometimes my jaw hurts from
Smiling
So much.
The room is filled with voices, the din
Of a kitchen in the back of an echo chamber
And none of them know the way I ache
Because all I do is
Smile.
They don’t know—
They don’t know that I go home
Exhausted
From this constant, grand performance.
They do not know I am a liar.
I touch the fingers of the girl in the
Glass as I wash off the makeup and
Study the acne scars underneath.
but actually fr my jaw hurts from smiling too much. stop making me laugh goshdarnit.
