Posted: Apr 23, 2021 3:48 PM AT | Last Updated: April 23 Kym Nacita wrote her poem thinking about all the different ways she’d rather be seen than beautiful. (Margaret Donahoe for CBC) For poet Kym Nacita, getting called beautiful gets old pretty quick. Around five years ago, she was dating someone who used that as their main compliment. Nacita found it constant and boring, and started replying in her own way. "When she would say, 'Oh, you're so beautiful,' and I would say, 'Oh, I know' as a joke," Nacita said. "At one point she said, a bit annoyed with me … 'You know, you can just say thank you.'"