Love Poem: The Girl With the Crooked Smile.
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Written by: Leonard Taormina

The Girl With the Crooked Smile.

The girl with the crooked smile; I knew her for a short time;
I was a boxer back then; sparring with shadows; 
Always up on my toes and dancing in circles. 
   These days life is more like a rock skipping across a pond.
   Thrown by a lover hoping somehow she is being entertained;
   And where the stone finally ends up is anybody’s guess.
Life—who knew huh? I never knew it could do what it did.
I ventured many miles for so many years; hoping the day might come;
It never did and that crooked smile has never been far from my mind.