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

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

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

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