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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