Beauty according to who?

Content Warning: mentions of eugenics

Beauty according to who?

Beauty capital for a few.

Pretty privilege

Beauty capital

Power

It's beauty power

It's beauty violence

Violence in the name of beauty

Beauty is violent

Beauty is pain

Isn't that what they say.

And after beauty

Is there love?

Or rather unkindness

After beauty

Beautiful power, beautiful violence and beautiful domination

Beauty is cruel

And sinister

Self loathing

Insecure

And dehumanizing

A complex and tortuous hierarchy

That starts with pale white skin

And ends in Africans viewed as sin

It must be ungodly

To be ugly

And then the ungodly

Is done to the ugly

Justified by beauty

So beautiful

They didn't deserve that

They didn't but others do

Beauty says

Some deserve ugly and ugly things

Beauty needs more

Endlessly

Beauty should never be without

So much beauty

They should have a beautiful life

To match the beauty

No matter the cost

And beauty can hoard more beauty

More beauty more for that beauty

To protect beauty of course

More beauty more maintenance

To protect beauty of course

More beauty more resources

To protect beauty of course

More beauty more violence

To protect beauty of course

More beauty more power

To protect beauty of course

Beauty dictated

What's your beauty capital?

Know where your place is

Beauty to determine what your fate is

Beauty dictated

First by whatever faith is

Bridging the gap

Between creators and created

Sorry it's what the holy text stated

Ugly is sin

Human dignity in the bin.

That's beauty dictated

Next by numbers

Calculations, measurements

Features examined graded and rated

Scientific beauty

Educate yourself

On where your place is

Scientifically

The science of beauty

If it's a science

Let's start with biology

Maybe blend a little

What about good genes

They say it's in the stitching

What admixtures bring beauty

How do we measure

What do we calculate

Then how can we bring more beauty about

How about we measure facial harmony

The distance between your brow bone and upper lip

How do we increase those desirable traits

Those beautiful things

Reproduce beauty

How do we create a beautiful population

What's wrong with genetic hygiene?

Cleanliness is next to godliness

And beauty is godlike

Let's get closer to god

Marry science and cleanliness

Get some godly genes to match with more godly genes.

Call it eugenics.

Books which have helped me contend with "Beauty":

Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Belly of the Beast The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness By Da’Shaun L. Harrison

The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison