With Compliments
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With Compliments

I remember the way that he called me beautiful, made me feel that I wasn’t. Rather, I was a picture in his mind, fixed in a gallery somewhere behind glass that was never smudged. Distantly pristine.

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“Oreo”
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“Oreo”

In this poem, I grapple with the feelings that I face every morning when looking in the mirror, wondering if I measure up to the expectations of my race.

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