"What the mirror said" by Lucille Clifton

Honestly, the first thing I thought of when I read this poem was, "that mirror is black."  I mean, the mirror doesn't conjugate the verbs correctly at all which gives it an inner city feeling.  After doing a quick google search, I learned that she was in fact black.  Getting back to the poem, the speaker is a mirror which I'm assuming is on a wall.  It is talking to a girl who is feeling self-conscience about her appearance.  The mirror then proceeds to give the girl a pep talk about how pretty she is and how any man would "have his hands on/ some/ damn/ body."  The mirror realizes how complicated the girl is and how she has "a geography" that somebody needs a map and directions to understand.  The syntax throughout the poem is not grammatically correct as I have already mentioned.  The structure is composed of short lines no longer than 3-4 words which adds emphasis to certain words.  It makes the reader pause while he or she reads making it sound, as I have already stated, like an inner city black person is talking.  More of a Will Smith in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air than a Morgan Freeman or Samuel L. Jackson.