poetry | prose

 
not a beauty queen

i'm really
not
a beauty queen.

not a
pin-up from
a magazine.

compliments
don't come
to me
a dime
a dozen.

which is
why
the smallest
things
can make me
smile.

and i
don't ever want
it to be
any other way.


[Author's note: Best of the self-discovery era.]


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