my issue with what they consider beautifulis their concept of beautycenters around excluding peoplei find hair beautifulwhen a woman wears itlike a garden on her skinthat is the definition of beautybig hooked nosespointing upward to the skylike they're rising to the occasionskin the color of earthmy ancestors planted crops onto feed a lineage of women withthighs thick as tree trunkseyes like almondsdeeply hooded with convictionthe rivers of punjabflow through my bloodstream sodon't tell me my womenaren't as beautifulas the ones inyour country