A Might've Been Pharaoh Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

One of my first serious girl friends,
of the marriable type,
was a mirror image of Zadie Smith

except she was half Egyptian
half Caucasian. Her Egyptian father
was somebody important in the

United Nations representing Egypt.
Her mother was in some comparable
position representing the US.

It all has to do with how I thought of her.
Pharaonically attractive. Sure we almost
married and had we gone to live in Cairo

I could've ended if not a Pharaoh then in
some Foreign Affairs Ministry. As it was
it turned out to be just a foreign affair.