may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Friday, October 22, 2010

MARILYN MONROE'S POETRY

Just released="FRAGMENTS"(poems,letters,musings
misspelled (taken from leather books in her own child's handwriting
"since i know from life one cannot love another,ever,really.."
Arthur Miller called her"a poet on a street corner
trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes"
Saul Bellow chimed"she conducts herself like a philosopher"
("she had a curious incandescence under her skin")
Marilyn read Proust,Freud,Carl Sandburg-
she associated with intellectuals(married one)
became an icon of America in the tradition of Mae West/Jean Harlow-
blond beauties who had wit as well as looks
Her clones seem less -Madonna,Paris Hilton,Lady Ga-Ga,Britney
insubstantial waifs substituting scandal for  substance
Her image invoked from Who's TOMMY (as a healing force)
to those new biopics hoping to cash in on her street cred.
She is dead.Her poems survive.Would they had the power
to keep her alive.

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