We are everyday people who bump and slide, limp and glide around each other with the cordiality and aloofness of eight-plus billion who must function as one for the survival of civilization and all that is found in nature--an ever-shrinking planet. Behind our smiles are the blessings of family, friends, success and rewards.We achieve and endure and make a good fortune.Amid all the happenings also lurks the adversaries of self-sacrifice, oppression, repression, dispossession, and the labors of living. But here we are, managing a smile there, too!We are famous in our anonymity, yet conspicuous in our notoriety.Bitter Wears a Smile - Of Nature and of Man offers a great variety of formats and scenarios, in poems and literary devices, that are examples of such.Because we are making it, baby! Come hell or high water!