Universal Contagion

Smile that dance with your lips whether luscious or pin-stripe thing glimmering like rubies or scales glazed by sunshine smile that dance on perched puffy cheeks whether skin of cocoa freckles or roses smile this dance is the universal contagion whether all thirty-two Chiclets of pearl or bare gums smile that dance in your eyes they're gemstones that sparkle whether wrinkles all around or botoxed to the brow smile that dance! of the genuine you that's the kind that makes me smile too it's selfish. I know. but it's the genuine kind with flaws that I need those smiles from beer-belly-busting chuckles that jiggle all the way out the smiles on kids when puppies play when loved ones see their soldier home and when brothers and sisters make each other proud now your lips have stretched to the limits to those puffy perched cheeks when your smile grew I smiled too