greatpoetry | You’re beautiful (Reply)

Bit like pop lyrics , but comes in handy during early days of courting. ;)

You’re beautiful

because you’re classically trained
I’m ugly because I associate piano wire with strangulation

You’re beautiful

because you stop to read the cards in newsagents’ windows
about lost cats and missing dogs.
I’m ugly because of what I did to that jellyfish
with a lolly-stick and a big stone.

You're beautiful because for you, politeness is instinctive, not a marketing
campaign.
I’m ugly because desperation is impossible to hide.

Ugly like he is,
Beautiful like hers,
Beautiful like Venus,
Ugly like his,
Beautiful like she is,
Ugly like Mars.

You’re beautiful because you believe in coincidence and the power of thought.
I’m ugly because I proved God to be a mathematical impossibility.

You’re beautiful because you prefer homemade soup to the packet stuff.
I’m ugly because once, at a dinner party,
I defended the aristocracy and wasn’t even drunk.

You’re beautiful because you can’t work the remote control.
I’m ugly because of satellite television and twenty-four hour rolling news.

Ugly like he is,
Beautiful like hers,
Beautiful like Venus,
Ugly like his,
Beautiful like she is,
Ugly like Mars.

You’re beautiful because you cry at weddings as well as funerals.
I’m ugly because I think of children as another species from a different world.

You're beautiful because you look great in any colour including red.
I’m ugly because I think shopping is strictly for the acquisition of material goods.

You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets
lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light
at your miniature feet.

I’m ugly for saying “love at first sight” is another form of mistaken identity,
and that the most human of all the responses is to gloat.

Ugly like he is,
Beautiful like hers,
Beautiful like Venus,
Ugly like his,
Beautiful like she is,
Ugly like Mars.

You’re beautiful because you’ve never seen inside of a car wash.
I’m ugly because I always ask for a receipt

You’re beautiful for sending a box of shoes to the third World
I’m ugly because I remember the telephone numbers of my ex-girlfriends
and the year Schubert was born

You’re beautiful because you sponsored a parrot in a zoo.
I’m ugly because when I sigh it’s like a slow collapse of a circus tent.

Ugly like he is,
Beautiful like hers,
Beautiful like Venus,
Ugly like his,
Beautiful like she is,
Ugly like Mars.

You’re beautiful because you can point at a man in a uniform and laugh.
I am ugly because I was a police informer in my own previous life

You’re beautiful because you drink a litre of water and eat three pieces of fruit a day.
I’m ugly for taking the line that a meal without meat is a beautiful woman with
one eye.

You’re beautiful because you don’t see love as a competition and you know how
To lose.
I’m ugly because I kissed the FA cup and the held it up to the crowd.

You’re beautiful because of the single buttercup in the top buttonhole of your cardigan
I’m ugly because I said the world’s strongest woman is a muscle man in a
Dress.

You’re beautiful because you couldn’t live in a lighthouse.
I’m ugly for making hand shadows in front of the giant bulb, so when they look up, the captains of vessels in distress see the ears of rabbit, eye of a fox and the legs of a galloping black horse.

Ugly like he is,
Beautiful like hers,
Beautiful like Venus,
Ugly like his,
Beautiful like she is,
Ugly like Mars.

Ugly like he is,
Beautiful like hers,
Beautiful like Venus,
Ugly like his,
Beautiful like she is,
Ugly like Mars.

~Simon Armitage