When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes,
And her brows are half uplifted in a nicely feigned surprise
As you breathe some pretty sentence, though she hates you all the while,
She is very apt to stun you with a made to order smile.
It's a subtle combination of a sneer and a caress,
With a dash of warmth thrown in to relieve its iciness,
And she greets you when she meets you with that look as if a file
Had been used to fix and fashion out the made to order smile.
I confess that I'm eccentric and am not a woman's man,
For they seem to be constructed on the bunko fakir plan,
And it somehow sets me thinking that her heart is full of guile
When a woman looks up at me with a made to order smile.
Now, all maidens, young and aged, hear the lesson I would teach:
Ye who meet us in the ballroom, ye who meet us at the beach,
Pray consent to try and charm us by some other sort of wile
And relieve us from the burden of that made to order smile.
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cute
Hmm. I have "made to order" frowns, if that's what he means. I like the fifteen-sylab lines. And the up-beat. I geuss the guy is resonable to be disgusted in made-to-orders, but isn't he the one doing the ordering?
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Meters well, led me right on down the lines- giggling all the while !!! Something tells me I may be reading a few of his works today. Sad how true it is, too. I wish the date written was on here. I find it amazing how damn repeatetive life and ludicruosness are...
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I know the smile, and I must admit that I have one of my own. But perhaps we use it as a shield. Awesome poem
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more than I hoped it would be
Liked the concept a lot. have seen a few of those smiles in my time. keep writin gthe good stuff :-D
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LOL! Boy, and you know one when you see one, right? I think it's something about the eyes. If the smile isn't in the eyes as well, it's a dead giveaway. <--- there's my non made to order grin --Glass
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