Posted by Fake Thing Fake Jake Fake Smiles
Nathanda Review in Malawi has published two of my poems, Fake Jake and Fake Smiles from my “Fake Things” Collection
Fake Thing Fake Jake Fake Smiles
Fake Jake
Many years ago
I proclaimed to the world
I was Jake
And I was not a fake
But I was the real deal
But over the years
I too have become fake
And yes Jake
Is also nothing but a fake.
Fake Smiles
The old soul classic
Smiling faces got it right
“Smiling faces sometimes
Pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces
Of the evil that lurks within (can you dig it?)
Smiling faces, smiling faces, sometimes
They don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces tell lies and I got proof
Oh, oh, yeah
Let me tell you
The truth is in the eyes ’cause the eyes don’t lie, amen
Remember, a smile is just a frown turned upside down my friend
So, hear me when I’m saying
Smiling faces, smiling faces, sometimes, yeah
They don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces tell lies and I got proof
(Beware) beware of the handshake
That hides the snake (can you dig it, can you dig it?)
I’m a-tellin’ you beware of the pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Jealousy, (jealousy) misery (misery) envy (envy)
I…”
Boy did the singer get it right
In this world of fake things
Where the market rules us all
The art of the fake smile
Has been perfected
They say that many people
Have mastered the art of the fake smile
Where you smile
and pretend to like someone
your victim
does not suspect
that the smile
is because you are thinking
of stabbing them in the back
oh yes in a world of fake people
beware, beware of smiling faces.
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and Foliate Oak Literary Review has published my poem
Fake Things
Fake Things
live in a world
Of fake things
Fake Products
Fake News
Fake Calls
Fake Politics
Fake Sports
Fake Business
Fake Leaders
Fake People
Fake friends
Fake sincerity
Surrounded 24/7
By all the fake things
How can anything real exist?
Is it all nothing but fake things
Designed to deceive us all?
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