Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Beautiful

When you list me, as all men must,
do not call me beautiful
first. No, list intelligent or impatient,
generous or unconfident. Perhaps
detail the ruts of my chin or that harsh slope
of my lower legs, that bathtub scar
in the cleft of my back, or
recite line by line the time
I named you foolish.

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