Ugly

Nabila Lovelace

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I tell you. Chipped my tooth
on a pork-chop         bone,

most of my hair on my      legs,
baldheaded,

                      4headed,
headed

a woman.
I scarred my left foot in new heels.

At worst
I'm a sad nigga.

Tarbabe culpable,
steal your son. u - g - l - y

I be my uglyass, alibi-less,
self & your father still crawls

through my window.
Ugz

          Magee.
my ass fat & I know

who wants it fatter:
            you

plump
& phallic applause:

Penal insistence prescribes me pretty,
I told you what I am & you Presidented

your ego, baby-- I dying is
Nationbuilding,

I
             (womanwomanwoman
                  womanwomanwoman
                      womanwomanwoman)(black)

plump &              You
                        [chantchantchant]

         witch :: witch :: witch
& I'm in a skewer the long ways

sluggish above an inferno.
nationbuilding,

make mess of me:
the first holiday roast.

I'm on
fire [for you baby].

What's new? What's the weather?
Singed to the bone

like a hate crime
it's nationbuilding

burning me (woman)(black) =
Doorknobdead.

My teeth starch straight
knowing you is the same without

me:
deadasdeadasdead

I know what I
know. Here's a secret

I ain't dying, baby:
I'm black &

ugly as
ever
Alive.