I'm just as phony

I'm just a truck-stop waitress
knowing they watch my legs
I feel half undressed
as they order up their eggs

but they don't know
how much I know
when they pull out
on their miles

I am just as phony
as their word 'honey'
and as made up
as my smile

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Mindful · 56-60, F

Cynical.
Why can’t a woman just smile? And let her smile be what it is? And no I’m NOT a waitress.

I was young and had to learn to be mean… because I was happy from the inside out… but others of the male persuasion thought it meant something ELSE!!!!! I was happy before I found out what men thought a SMILE meant. No wonder middle easter women have to wear a veil!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why can’t I just be happy and smile??????? Without a man thinking beyond that?

atlantic59 · 61-69, M

@Mindful of course they can. I'm only talking of me as phony. I'm dysfunctional. I shouldn't even be allowed on here.

Ryderbike

@Mindful except when you smile at someone that you have decided you’re interested in. Correct?

Mindful · 56-60, F

@Ryderbike I used to smile at everyone. Now I try not to smile at men. NOW I have to be sooo careful I can’t smile at all women either. I want the right to wear a veil without being called Muslim.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

Very poetic! Yes, I am male too, but I can see the waitress' point there.

The previous owners of my home left a decorative transfer on the wall. I like it, so have kept it. It is a quote attributed to Marilyn Monroe, and it reads:

A smile is the best make-up any girl can wear.

atlantic59 · 61-69, M

@ArishMell that is so true and at the Hotel I worked in last year they had something similar posted near the time clock

SatyrService · M

awesome poetry
so very true
source?

atlantic59 · 61-69, M

@SatyrService hospitality industry and it's dark corridors on the 13th floor where I worked as a bellman at the Heartbreak Hotel

LandOfOz · 61-69, M

Pull out on their miles???

atlantic59 · 61-69, M

@LandOfOz rolling down the highway

Ryderbike

Well you probably have nice legs if they are looking at them. Men are genetically pre disposed to admire the female form.

atlantic59 · 61-69, M

@Ryderbike even as a guy, I was complimented on my legs. I wish I could flaunt them now, - it would distract people from looking at my face

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