please smile

[neatelarrin]

please smile at me

louder, louder, louder now so my frowns don't drown you out

the android still walks
the android still talks

the android returns
to the crystalline city of lonely hearts

we don't even know if we would recognize
love anymore,
the royal we,
it says,

holds its titanium head in its hands
bends its perfect joints to sit down on
sit down on a trash heap to rest

alkaline dreams of
salt silver smiles and
beauty
are ours tonight

we dream of you and we
sing of you

in alien choruses that we think
spell

love