HER MOTHER
MAYBE SHE SITS WITH HER MOTHER RECOVERED+WHOLE
Joe cried at her funeral & for the next 20 yrs. had
roses at her crypt twice a week DiMaggio was
famously private now his love letters won’t be
Sotheby will auction the: Lost Monroe Archives next
month Norma Jean’s mother died in an asylum +she
bounced between foster-homes Used +sexually abused
Muse to powerful men No stranger to the casting couch
Marilyn referred to herself as: HER With those huge doe
eyes perpetually in startle mode Monroe was a pop culture
black hole Martin Nolan the auctioneer said: It really gives
you the chills when you see the intimacy +personal nature
of the stuff As though she were an IT Well Martin the detritus
of a life always reeks of intimacy but then you may be missing
a chip or 2
This reminiscent of the 12 yr. old girl who asked me: Do you think
getting shot hurts? With most people in a permanent state of OFF
the great de-humanization is occurring as we consume disaster tv
+must be reminded that: YES a human life is personal & that being
shot likely hurts a lot As one Canadian woman tweeted following the
Gomeshi affair: I’m along for the ride and not liking myself for it.
It’s a time waster and an energy suck. It’s an obsession.
Yet perhaps the floodgates have finally opened In every corner of the
free press there are references to rape+abuse Today is World Toilet
Day & the U.N. tries to raise awareness about the dangers to women
+children in outhouses &fields where they are regularly assaulted
Might we predict a seismic shift for humanity? Perhaps too soon to know
54 yrs. ago they carried Marilyn Monroe out of her home with dirty sheets
+pillbottles a personal scene of overdose? Tomorrow fans will fly from all
corners of the globe +spend more than 2million$ Marilyn’s collectibility
has skyrocketed in recent years Among the artifacts of mid-century
debauchery is a watercolour she painted for President Kennedy
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Oh there been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long
But now I think I’m able to carry on
It’s been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will.
Sam Cooke 1963
Late Fall 2014
songanddancegirl 