The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be by Brian Doyle

Author:Brian Doyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2016-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Ten Thousand Smiles

I was just calculating that my sister,

Whom I have known for 700 months,

Which is nearly three thousand weeks,

Which is nearly twenty thousand days

(which is a remarkable number of days

When you think about it; I mean, that’s

A stunning heap of pain and laughter),

Has smiled at me roughly 10,000 times,

Give or take a few thousand. Now, did

She also occasionally snarl and shriek?

O yes she did. But ten thousand smiles,

That’s a remarkable number of smiles,

And I want to stay with the smiles here.

Q: what are the cumulative effects of so

Many smiles? Can you get smile burns?

Can your interior warmth go up a point

After so many smiles? Does each smile

Register somehow permanently in you,

Like a scar? Can you get smiling scars?

We can see the effect of smiles on faces,

The cheerful lines that smiles cut in skin

After years of use; do smiles also get cut

Into people who have been smiled upon?

If everything we know about everything

Is hardly anything, could smiles be food?

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