altho i can't define it, it means a lot to me.

i don't perpetuate friendships with ppl i don't like to look at. i care abt how things are arranged, whether on a page/in a poem/in the air. i prefer to listen to voices that appeal to me. i have difficulty listenning to voices that don't appeal to me. i cd spend days arranging and rearranging my apt in ways that look good to me. i never just throw sumthin down on the table, i hafta like where it lands, ...

beauty is extremely important to me. arrangements are zen for me. my art is about beauty and arrangements. and rearrangements.

and i'm not about to call that a fault or a weakness, because i'm proud of what i create.

but part of what i create is myself. and it is important to me that i look good when i leave the house, unless i take all the mirrors out, which i do sometimes. keep me away from mirrors and i don't care what i look like. if i forget to look at a mirror (which happens very frequently) it doesn't occur to me to wonder how i look.

now, my kinda beauty stuff isn't abt perming or dying my hair or wearing a lotta makeup. it's abt wearing a scent that i like to smell. arranging things. sometimes it's about inside jokes like funky colored eyeshadow put on real subtly or green mascara that you really can't pick up on, ....

even my toes have rings on them and my husband is so beautiful that i am in awe of him every morning when i wake up.

not to say i think that physical beauty is the end all be all or that i don't believe in inner beauty, but if i lived in a tiny shack it'd be the cleanest best lookin shack around for miles, an i wouldn't rest until it was-

so maybe i'm the only person around here who's into that. if so, i suppose the beauty question is just for me.

where are the artists/painters/drawers when ya need 'em?!?!?!



==**peace**==

"baby,
I'd draw yuh bath
like Picasso..

pick you,
like fruit
off yuh family tree. &
eatcha' honeydew ass,
wet"

-Giovanni, rhythmic poet extraordinaire

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