the problem is
we decided beautiful is good.
beautiful is pure.
beautiful is normal.
we chose not to see
the beauty in a man's last breath
after he's been shot three times.
we chose not to see the beauty
in the death of a garden.
we chose not to see the beauty
in manipulative phrases.
we chose not to see the beauty
in the things that harm us,
when in fact beauty
can be as deadly and objective
as a knife, loosely grasped in someone's hand.