Strong men grew weak at the sight of her,
a beautiful rising star in Hollywood.
Her beauty was incomparable, her voice
like a siren call.
Men came into her life like trains into a
train station.
She used them, tired of them; then
threw them away like old dish rags.
When her beauty faded due to old age,
and men no longer desired her, she
sank into a deep depression and felt
like killing herself.
She died at 77 in a nursing home,
alone, forgotten, and unloved.

Bob Boyd