The Most Beautiful Ugly Woman

She was beautiful, but in a different sort of way.

Her skin was an awful green, and her hair didn’t sway.

If she was in a fairy tale, even Shrek would stay away.

She had a make-you-faint smell, like a bodies decay.

She was rotten and ugly, but at the end of the day,

she was beautiful, in a different sort of way.

 

vanhoudj@bsdvt.org

VT

19 years old

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