Beauties and the Beasts

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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Barbra Streisand, such

As these hold up the hope that ugly folk

Can be attractive, sexy just as much

As Doris Day and Rock.  An icky bloke

Like Sammy Davis Junior brings to bed

A gorgeous woman like May Britt.  The looks

Of some of us are so like acne spread

On margarine and toast, so much like crooks

Of Mafiosa families firing guns

That only miracles can help us win

The hearts of Brads and greedy Taylors.  Ones

Born ugly have to hope for beauties’ sin.

  One Miller got his Marilyn against

    The odds, outrageous luckiness dispensed.