In a city of
Greys and dust
And muted blues
A young smile
Comes to me
“Take my picture”
She says
Then stands there
Happy and poised
In vivid red
Tag: happiness
Roadtrip
An endless sea to my left
Mountains rising
Into the sky on my right
Mountains rising
Into the sky on my right
A yellow stripe
And smooth asphalt
Winding along
The rocky shore between
Happiness in Kashgar
“Take my picture!”
She’d seen my camera
A foreigner with a camera
“Take my picture!”
Happily, I oblige
Line her up with the street
The cyclist, passing by
Deliriously Happy
Yep, that’s a deliriously happy face graffiti’d onto the side of a dumpster.
Now, you can call that irony, or juxtaposition, and maybe the person who painted it there was thinking that way too.
But…
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