Saturday, May 15, 2004

Who Is The Most Beautiful Woman in Kenya?

poem first posted on safarilady in january 2003:

Last edited on Jan-23-03 at 01:26 PM (GMT) by mumbi (moderator)

who is the most beautiful woman in kenya?
the most beautiful woman in kenya
is any woman in kenya
the most beautiful woman in kenya
is you, if you are a woman and you love yourself
the most beautiful woman in kenya
is your mother, my sister, your aunt, our neighbour
the most beautiful woman in kenya
is the woman wasting away in a hospital bed as aids ravages her body
the most beautiful woman is that blind student at kenyatta
the most beautiful woman in kenya is the teenager begging in the streets of nairobi
the most beautiful woman in kenya who has been taught
that your ass is too big, your legs too thin, your hair too coarse, your teeth too large, your breasts too small your waist too wide
the most beautiful woman in kenya is the woman who never bothered to enter the miss kenya pageant because her skin is darker than charcoal, her teeth browner than chocolate and her face rougher than sandpaper
the most beautiful woman in kenya is the seventy year old hunchback
the most beautiful woman in kenya is the woman who has never been told that she is beautiful
the most beautiful woman in kenya is the woman stocking up all those mercury laded skin lightners trying to outshine halle berry and tyra banks
the most beautiful woman in kenya is your old schoolmate who you used to tease and taunt because of her succulent lips
that you thought were too thick
but which every barbie doll on the paris runway/catwalk is desperately trying to replicate with generous infusions of silicon
the most beautiful woman in kenya is staring back at you
uncertainly
from your own bathroom mirror....
onyango oloo