Short Accosting Poems

Finding humor in the most common of things
Is the ability reserved for a bunch of us dingalings
Ya gotta be silly
A silly hillbilly
Even if you start accosting strangers in the spring ...

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Once I used to see
flowery smiles,
fruitful friendships,
 and ocean-deep loving hearts.

Decades after,
now I have no expectations...
I make no inferences
at the plastic faces looking at me;
lip-length hellos accosting me;
and those  shallow hearts 
spread before me.

Thinking of the changed world
I looked at myself in the mirror
and tried to smile
Nay! No expression!
There, staring at me
a weird plastic face!...

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