smile
when you are seven and the man
taking the picture tells you to not
smile because your smile is ugly
you learn to avoid cameras
more than fifty years later
i cannot bear a camera pointed
at me and someone saying smile
because even tho i know better
i still cannot get those words
out of my head
or my heart
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Sad how adults can scar a child for life!