POCAHONTAS
MARLON BRANDO POCAHONTAS & ME
Then there are the recurring déjà vu’s Part dream
part psychotic-snapshot A cousin described these
to a tee more daymare actually Sometimes my father
throws back his head + laughs He won’t squander his
happiness if given a second lease
Today a civilian plane is blown from the sky 298 die
Metaphor is the mother of reality & reality is the shit-abyss
this Summer
38 yrs. ago another steamy Summer day 19 pristine
Like a dream In chiffon cream confection $1200
way back then People say your dress cost thousands!
bourgeois neighbor bellowed On the day I sold the dress
I came within inches of being cancelled by a streetcar named:
The Last Chance Texaco
My young groom twice married (3rd bride makes the man)
Father at my side gone now 25 A jittery bride Grooms sister
cried (gone at 45) Hated me for marrying up But none of that
matters anymore In the end we leave nameless + poor Lingering
now on the shore still part pristine mostly grizzled Fisher-Queen
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Stella! Stella!
(Stanley Kowalski Vieux Carre 1947)
Summer 2014
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