by Deb Myers
An executive
once told my boss
I should smile more
make more eye contact
with him, so he didn’t feel
like I didn’t like him
At a concert
red letters on the front
of a black t-shirt read
Don’t Tell Me to Smile
it was only offered
in women’s cut
because
of course
I bought it
Deb Myers spent her career helping companies create and improve technology products. She has left the business and technical writing world behind, and now writes poetry from her home in coastal Maine.
