Ugly

By Matthias Asiedu-Yeboa

Eighteen poems / poetic prose pieces for those who feel like they’re more ugly than poetry. You can be both, or neither, and I want you to know that.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9780244069827

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Ugly

Ugly

Matthias Asiedu-Yeboa

For those who feel like they’re more ugly than poetry.

Copyright ©

Matthias Asiedu-Yeboa 2018

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form without written permission from the author except in the case of brief quotations.

ISBN: 978-0-244-06982-7

Self-published in the UK.

About the Author

Matthias Asiedu-Yeboa lives in West Drayton.

He has a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing: the Novel, from Brunel University London.

This is his second book of poetry, having self-published A Little Thought, A Lot of Feeling in 2017.

Twitter:

@mattps139

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I almost didn’t put this one out.

Thank you, Christina Hopp and Sara Kellar.

I love you.

To U (Terror Otherwise Untitled)

I am like you:

I am

awash with a crush,

to you,

and I want to protect myself.

I like you.

I like swimming,

but I hate the threat of the waves

stabbing me. Though

I like drowning,

I am letting

myself like you so much that I think

I'm gonna be sick:

I'm thrashing:

OHMYGOD a baptism!

A stillness:

vomit

I'm about to vomit:

a bringing back up;

a resurrecting.

a living, a moving

a being, a

loving

to you,

but

there's