MARY
MARY MARY WHERE YOU GOING TO?
Mary died today Tyler Moore Remember her
throwing her pink hat into the air? Did she turn
the world on with her smile? Far too wholesome
+toothsome even for then You wanted to see her
a little messed up neat skirt askew after a few too many
It was 1977 but felt more Laura Petrie repressed than the
vanguard of Women’s Lib. She seemed virginal in those
Audrey-esque suits with small pointy breasts Perhaps even
an Electra complex simmering underneath for Ed Gruff
father figure sleeves rolled up Perhaps even a seduction on
his desk?
Mary’s own father died of cancer in 92 after an unsuccessful
suicide attempt assisted by Mary Her only child Richard died
when a gun went off in his hands at 24 There were stints too at
the Betty Ford Real life savaged the ingenue Dark eyed + lush
lipped Demons flattened themselves against lithe frame Ed now
plays a psychoanalyst on TV Doesn’t look like Ed anymore
When our TV stars start dying we lose the demi-gods whose
visitations in our living rooms where our parents rested middle
aged bodies were the glory days When we really had it made –
Your choice you can cling to your past or to your future
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*(creepy orange DJT signed an executive order to have Mary
buried in the White House rose garden)
Winter 2017 RIP Mary Tyler Moore 1936-2017
songanddancegirl 
Is there any room for Mary in the Rose Garden? Trump’s already buried the truth, decency and tolerance there.