exotic
suheir
hammad
don't
wanna be your exotic
some
delicate fragile colorful bird
imprisoned caged
in a land foreign to the stretch of her wings
don't
wanna be your exotic
women
everywhere are just like me
some
taller darker nicer than me
but like me but just the same
women
everywhere carry my nose on their faces
my
name on their spirits
don't
wanna
don't
seduce yourself with
my
otherness my hair
wasn't
put on top of my head to entice
you
into some mysterious black voodoo
the
beat of my lashes against each other
ain't
some dark desert beat
it's
just a blink
get
over it
don't
wanna be your exotic
your
lovin of my beauty ain't more than
funky
fornication plain pink perversion
in
fact nasty necrophilia
cause
my beauty is dead to you
I
am dead to you
not
your
harem
girl geisha doll banana picker
pom
pom girl pum pum shorts coffee maker
town
whore belly dancer private dancer
la
malinche venus hottentot laundry girl
your
immaculate vessel emasculating princess
don't
wanna be
your erotic
not
your exotic
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here with permission from Suheir Hammad