I have no smile

To offer the world.

Turn me upside-down

So the blood rushes

To my head.

Then you see my smile.

I will close my ears.

Since I’m already blind,

Why not be deaf?

If I turn away,

Maybe the pain will go.

If I lay down my pen,

My voice will be silenced.

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