Gentle Words Say Something Unbeautiful came about when, in my creative writing class, we were given the assignment of using ugly words to say something pretty or pretty words to say something ugly. It has been through a couple of revisions since that original assignment, but that inspiration led me to create this pretty, melancholy poem which describes something abrupt and harsh; namely, a rape. The use of quatrains and the right alignment of the poem are intended to create the impression of repeated intrusion, wrongness, and grief
