Monday, July 28, 2014

BEAUTY


BEAUTY


Beauty, Coyote says,
riffing on Henry Bones,
a friend of old,
"is boring.  We must
not say so."  Give me
my imperfection
any day.  Give me
the stink of dirt,
and I’ll put my nose
in it.  Just spare me
the yawn of elegance,
the pretentiousness
of beauty.  Déesse
et immortelle my eye,
as Charlie Baudelaire
said, who knew a thing
or two about it.



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