Nabila Lovelace
Nabila Lovelace is a first-generation Queens born poet, whose family is originally from Trinidad and Nigeria. The author of Sons of Achilles (YesYes Books, 2018), she lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Source
Don't Pretty Me
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t pretty me. Don’t pretty me.
Don’t.
Published:
2018
Length:
Regular
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2021
Themes:
Identity
Womanhood
Literary Devices:
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
Repetition
a recurrence of the same word or phrase two or more times