pretty

[solemn wigeon]

Pretty

I’m pretty
I guess
But not the conventional
Painfully obvious
Put-together mess
Of pretty.

I’m pretty,
When in a line,
Of the prettier
And prettiest
And I’m just
Pretty.

Like it’s a pity,
That my pretty
Didn't make it out
The boundary.

That it’s a pity
That I’m just pretty
When I could be
So much more

That my pretty
Is just sitting
And somedays my
pretty
Is not pretty-ing

And those days,
Im not even pretty.

And If I don’t look pretty,
I don’t feel pretty
And If I don’t feel pretty
I never will be
Pretty.

Or
the pretty
that I want to be.
It’s such a pity.

• def not my best, this is from years ago from the archive, I just wanted to put it somewhere.

[faint night]

damn, no, this is good

I "get" it

and your use of colloquialisms and slang do the poem justice

it's much more tone appropriate than formal vocabulary and grammar

Like it’s a pity,
That my pretty
Did make it out
The boundary.

That it’s a pity
That I’m just pretty
When I could be
So much more

These two stanzas though, if you could clarify

When you say:

That my pretty

Did make it out
The boundary

what does that mean?

As in, like, it's a pity that you were only able to reach "simply pretty", and that it pales in comparison to a more idealized version of "pretty"?

And your other stanza:

"That it’s a pity
That I’m just pretty
When I could be
So much more"

Is that a metaphor for you wishing you could be recognized for things like your intelligence, or your sense of humor, or your personality instead? Or is it a statement saying "It's a pity that I'm a simple style of pretty, when I could be elevated to prettier, or perhaps even prettiest"?

or does it mean something else?

[solemn wigeon]

yeah sort of like that

yeah it's about not feeling pretty enough and being just "simply pretty" not like jawdroppingly pretty

and if you're just simply pretty is it worth it when you could be so much, recognised for all your other traits