Convince me

The lady in charge of the cooking class

Complimented me in broken English

Smiling, with my hair pulled back,

She stared for a second and said

I looked like Angelina Jolie

When we went to the market the next night,

I helped you pick out a dress for your mother

After purchasing it, you asked the vendor

If I was pretty

She said yes, and I blushed in the heat

As you looked down into my eyes as if I could be

At the airport, you compared me to an American actress

Studied my face and concluded

I looked “kind of like Megan Fox”

I joked and responded with “only if I wore some makeup”