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Undesirable Likeness
by Alexander Goldstein → (All Poetry by Alexander Goldstein)
Sunday, August 14, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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When an ugly man

Have a son born to him

At midnight,

He hastens with a light

To look at him.

Very eagerly he does so,

Only afraid that

The newborn baby boy

May be like himself.

 

The whole point is that

In this world of duality,

When beauty is carried

To its extremity,

It turns into ugliness;

When good intentions

Are driven to extremity,

They come to be harmful.

 


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 Reviews of "Undesirable Likeness"
Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on August 14, 2016
Who is to say someone is ugly and another isn't. It's all in the beholder. What may be ugly on the outside (like a walnut), may be beautiful on the inside. John

Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on August 14, 2016
Ron is incorrect on newborns and yes, ugly can be passed on, only if your genes carry it.

Always,
Deborah

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 14, 2016
All newborn babies are ugly. And, strangely enough, I've seen both ugly and beautiful in the same family. I recall an identical twin like me who said that her sister, “got it all,” because she had to do all kinds of things to make herself over… her teeth, her body shape, her hair, her skin… and still would not look like her beautiful sister.

But I'm glad that beauty is in the eye of beholder so that even ugly can be embraced.

Ron


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