If you think I’m not beautiful
by Jennifer Winterstein
If you think I’m not beautiful,
then you simply aren’t looking hard enough.
If you think my eyes don’t sparkle,
then shine a light in my face.
If you think my hair and skin
doesn’t have the luster, like any normal woman,
then look at my reflection in a silvered spoon.
If you think my body is too lumpy
doesn’t have enough curves
or isn’t disproportionate in all the right places,
then look at me through a kaleidoscope.
If you think I don’t understand
what you’re asking when you touch
my breast and my thigh and my butt
and that’s all you touch, because
you think that I have
no intelligence, experience, or class
and only a little bit of a personality —
that’s why you’re here
with this ‘Dumb Broad’ in the dark,
then you are too ugly to be with me.