I found the picture album
in the menagerie of things
that now populate the storage
where the indian sings.

The pictures were saddened
all your smiles were upside down.
I can't believe that maybe
all you ever did was frown.

Something must have happened
over there with those folk,
they've taken all your photos
and given them a poke.

This made you seem unhappy
in each and every frame,
your sadness now is visible
you don't even look the same.

Not the same man that I loved
not the same one I adored,
why in some of the pictures
you actually look quite bored.

I'm thinking of going over
and talking to the owner
see if maybe there's a smiling
happy faced donor,

who'd be willing to let go
of his pearly little grin.
I'll paste it in the pictures
all the ones that you are in.

Then I'm moving all that stuff.
Can you imagine such a thing?
They put your perfect smile
on the indian who sings.

WhiteRose 11/26/02