If beauty signaled so much power, why did four out of four historical beauties die tragically?

If beauty signaled so much power, why did four out of four historical beauties die tragically?
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If a Black person is alive but no one /
is around to profit off of them, /
do they make a sound?
you’re not even catholic, and i’m not even catholic,
and we’ve just played the biggest prank on the church since
the time that those kids teepeed the courtyard at st. joseph’s.
Our bodies, my mother answers, //
when I ask her what the world reined. The world / tightening / its fist.
Call me by my name. Say it / with the familiarity and reverence / of a spoken prayer.