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You came clean this week looked me in the forehead and said, "I don't get it, you're too pretty to write poetry."
So I'm going to come clean, Since obviously you have a different opinion than me.
I feel pretty like the feeling the photographers must of had when they realized they were in the room when Elvis and Nixon shook hands.
I feel pretty like the first person who walked in and saw Sylvia Plath with her head inside an oven.
I feel pretty like your lips when you said I can't write poetry.
I'm going to come clean I think that some things are so dirty around here sometimes that when I wake up with my face half stuck, half painted to the canvas it can still make me feel all sorts of pretty.
I'm going to come clean I have been all different kinds of mean in this life walked all over everything that shouldn't be walked on and loved people despite how unlucky they were, relied on nothing more than being pretty so that we could eat dinner at night.
And when you said that there is such a thing as being too pretty to succeed at the only thing that makes feelings worth having (for me) well, I'm going to come clean, I can't do anything but disagree.
If you've never gotten in your car and drove more than two hours to hear a person you've never met before read a poem about champagne you've got no idea what the phrase "too pretty" even means.
If you've never seen Buddy tell a story and shoot from tears right into laughter - this poem is too pretty for you.
Not knowing if that sound is the gunshots or your heart, pretty.
Walking into the hotel lobby and getting drunk with the piano player at the hotel bar, pretty.
Falling in love and falling out of love and falling in love again just to find out you had it right the first time, too pretty.
I'm going to come clean I have been someone's one night stand way too many times.
I am addicted to the feeling you get in your stomach right before something real big happens that you didn't seen coming.
The look on my face is sometimes, yes, pretty, but other times so broken that I don't want to NOT drive and sing up and down the shore I don't want to be afraid that when someone talks to me it's just because I'm pretty I don't want to fall short on letting strangers know I am well educated, but too familiar with running away from people who are stronger than me.
I am going to come clean.
I have cheated more than once, lied more than once and buried a friend more than once.
I have killed so many dreams before they ever even had a chance and having my first child was one of them.
I have never told anyone the whole truth except the strangers who hear my poetry, so to be too pretty to get those secrets out just so it doesn't haunt me is something I'm going to take personally.
I am too stubborn for my own good, too proud to fall in love seriously, and too pretty to write poetry.
Lucky me.
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