Ugly Beauty

Ugly Beauty

I used
to put
the
pussy
on a
pedestal.

living
with
a
woman

will cure
you of all
that

and debunk
those
silly myths.

Listen Buddy
that
woman
you’re infatuated
with
occasionally

gets gassy
and whether
you’re there to
know it
or not,
she takes shits.

Even the
most magical
of women
have their
bad days.

Bleeding
cramping
bloating
and bitching.

Deep
beneath
that sweet
benevolent
demeanor

is
an
equally
depraved
wolverine

just
waiting
to see
the light
of day

and rip
your fucking
throat
out.

You won’t
be attracted
to her
all the time.

You might
even hate
her some
days.

Love is
an
acceptance

acknowledgment
of a
dark violence.

To pick one’s
boogers.

Popping their black heads
and in-grown
hairs
on someone’s
face
back
buttocks
and thighs.

Licking their
hairy
asshole

feeling their
rectum
for hemorrhoids.

Smelling
a
person’s
fart
and
laughing
in
disgust.

Waking
up
to a baggy
eyed
mass
of mussed
up hair.

Having your
morning
wood
overpower
their morning breath.

This
may
be the truest
foundation
of love.

All
the fluff
of poetry
song and
blockbuster
films

is simply
hallucination,
a pretty
picture

a mirage
in
a desert
of loneliness.

Edward Austin Robertson