Sunday, August 28, 2011

1950s SMALL TOWN LIFE/untitled poem






I am happy.
The usual twilight tears
May come and go,
I ignore them.
I can be happy.
Or so I prove to myself
Through smiles and
Defiant glances
]At the poor child
Who cannot hold her tears
As she mirrors my sad eyes.


Susan J. Skinner


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