junkyard poetry

smile at your brother
yes, go ahead, smile at one another
and now your jaw aches
and you won't get that polite smile off
with noting less than a chisel

the clothes make the man
and Korean children probably made these clothes
just so that I can fake status and style
fake my way through these get-togethers
of people sizing up one another

Jesus turned water to wine in high glasses
did he make these hors d'oeuvre from dust
or was that was god made us of?
it must be seeping through because we've become
strangely see-through

someone put a magician on the guestlist
and he's been pulling some neat tricks
because people keep disappearing
off peoples phone books, as two new names
miraculously show up

so smile at your brother,
he could mean another step up the ladder
ihis back could be a step up of the staircase
so reorganize your polite phrases
and smile at one another