"Say 'sausages' to the camera"!
Our happy, gappy grins
frozen in school photos. 
I'd squirm. That hawk-eyed lens
so unforgiving. Wild tribes viewed it
superstitiously. Victorians kept aloof
unsmiling, never exhibiting teeth
the way Simians display threat
- why bleach and bare like beacons now?

Just 44 words for De’s Quadrille word prompt: Smile