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Grinning from Ear to Ear
Janet Kuypers
5/13/12
While on the job,
I’m supposed to smle all the time,
and a coworker came walking by,
and that’s when then I had to
stretch my face,
because smiling like this
all the time can really get
to your facial muscles.
So I asked the coworker,
“Hey, you know how they say
that if you keep making that face,
our face will freeze that way?
Because I don’t think
I could take it if my face froze
in a smile like this forever...”
And as this guy was laughing,
I thought that it’s not me
to look happy like this forever.
And besides, if your face froze
in a forever smile,
how could you explain yourself
at a funeral of a loved one,
when you come in
not able to control
grinning from ear to ear?
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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (filmed from a Canon fs200, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus,
Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.
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