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2004-05-30.12:56 a.m.


Beauty
Linda Gregg


There she was on Entertainment Tonight.
Someone had caught a glimpse of Bardot
after all these years.  Brigitte Bardot
running through the trees, across a meadow,
a dog running with her.  The hair still long.
Then another part showing her on the patio,
aged.  (Sun-damaged, we say.)  The violation
of beauty never happens just once.
When my father heard his beloved dog
had chased and killed the rancher's sheep,
he went right out and shot it.  Because,
he said, once they ran with the pack
and tasted blood it would never stop.



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