everybody smiles in this city

a paperboy gives the visual representation
of his internal monologue by smiling
because this morning when he woke up:
he cycled around, enjoyed the rains and forgot
everything for a while

a retired colonel
takes care of his guest pigeons
and smiles when he sees them quarrelling for water

a rigid old man
who has not smiled a single time since the loss of his family,
smiles again
because of the preserved postcards,
he once created with his six-year-old granddaughter

two siblings smile while watching the Stuart little together

an artist paints a picture of a turtle and rabbit befriending
on a night full of lightning and scary thunders

a silent boy in the class,
bonds with a pet rabbit, Coldplay, a family of fourteen cats,
and Heidi: a four-year-old baby girl
with her goats

this smiling city resides at that corner
of the country of my imaginary world
where no one lives yet everybody smiles.