Seriously, no can do. And you can say “OHH, it’s just a friendly gesture”. Bullshit. Since when have humans been inherently friendly towards one another? Tuck your smiles in the laughter you cause and only that, because it’s not gonna work with me. So, if you see me walking or posted up in my zone, don’t even try, cause I’ll just walk around it no matter the face. And what’s the prize of smiling at me anyways? I got that opal kind of face, once a precious stone now a changing color. The ancestors once smiled. They fought and fought and fought and fought for that characteristic until that sacred spread was that of the challengers. And that challenger in turn fucked them and left to figure themselves out with backshots and all. By the end, they weren’t the ones smiling anymore as they had to find a way to pave their own dimples. And they still are doing that as their flesh yearns through me, clawing their fingers through my mouth to form one by lifting the corners as people stroll by, but it doesn’t work. As they continue to eat poetry with ink along their mouths, I continue to eat myself as to what I see each day. Even if the days of being human is long gone for me, this smiling-stranger syndrome needs to be stopped. Why can’t we go back to the days when the thunderbird was crackin?

Sincerely,

Your Local Deer Lady