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The Urge

in the check-out line at Safeway,

fighting the urge to blush when

a cashier says, if I was five years

younger, you'd be in trouble

"boy, you gotta do more than

just grin at that fine woman,"

my father would say before

going on bout dental cost and

how I better show his money

well-spent when I smile

he could never let me forget

an overbite and 3 years of braces

have a nice day the cashier

winks and the urge overwhelms

me, a fortune-cookie

proverbs pops into my head:

"a smile is your personal

welcome mat"

a month before, I caught

a woman's eyes in ...

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