"The word pretty is unworthy of everything you will be / and no child of mine will be contained in five letters"

This is old-school awesome. The idea that we shouldn't have to be constrained by "pretty" always rings true, in feminism and queer politics. And, well, life in general. Sometimes poets just say things best.

(I am forever grateful to my parents, who told me that I was gorgeous but never, ever told me what that meant.)