Poems by Annie Diamond
A Famous Man
There was a man
We all know him.
He was beautiful
But he didn't know it.
He wanted to please everyone.
The ones who were finding fault,
The ones who demanded perfection.
They knew him from his youth.
When he became a man
They wanted to keep him young forever.
He tried to give them what they wanted
He went under the knife
Disfiguring his beauty.
As for the people he tried to please
They gave him new names.
They called him freak and Wako Jako.
Oh, such a pity
The man did not know his beauty.