YouTube - Katie Makkai - Pretty
This is about the self-mutilating circus we have painted ourselves clowns in.
About women who will prowl 30 stores in 6 malls to find the right cocktail
dress, but haven't a clue where to find fulfillment or how wear joy, wandering
through life shackled to a shopping bag, beneath those 2 pretty
syllables.
About men wallowing on bar stools, drearily practicing
attraction and everyone who will drift home tonight, crest-fallen because not
enough strangers found you suitably fuckable.
This, this is about my own
some-day daughter. When you approach me, already stung-stayed with insecurity,
begging, “Mom, will I be pretty? Will I be pretty?” I will wipe that question
from your mouth like cheap lipstick and answer, “No! The word pretty is unworthy
of everything you will be, and no child of mine will be contained in five
letters.
http://dianasmanylifetimes.blogspot.com/2010/11/katie-makkai-pretty.html
This is about the self-mutilating circus we have painted ourselves clowns in.
About women who will prowl 30 stores in 6 malls to find the right cocktail
dress, but haven't a clue where to find fulfillment or how wear joy, wandering
through life shackled to a shopping bag, beneath those 2 pretty
syllables.
About men wallowing on bar stools, drearily practicing
attraction and everyone who will drift home tonight, crest-fallen because not
enough strangers found you suitably fuckable.
This, this is about my own
some-day daughter. When you approach me, already stung-stayed with insecurity,
begging, “Mom, will I be pretty? Will I be pretty?” I will wipe that question
from your mouth like cheap lipstick and answer, “No! The word pretty is unworthy
of everything you will be, and no child of mine will be contained in five
letters.
http://dianasmanylifetimes.blogspot.com/2010/11/katie-makkai-pretty.html
