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Smile Please
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Smile Please I’ve paid off my debentures By photographing lynchers. Above their easy grins They stare into my lens As, placing for my view Their firstborn, parents do. To keep it sharp, I hope, I focus on the rope: A good strong vertical. The neck twists in the fall. You want to show the drop Full length. I never crop. Lash marks are hard to catch. I touch them in; I match Them up from shot to shot; Touch out the crotch or what, So I can send by mail. Nudes have the biggest sale. It’s hard to shoot a burning, But year by year I’m learning. 28 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...