FOREVER
FOREVER YOUNG
Joan Didion modern day femme Montaigne Gorgeous +insolent
Willowy infused with cigarette smoke+dyed in the wool chic Bought
Susan Kasabian her embroidered dress for the trial of the century Up close
+ personal with Charlie Manson Jim Morrison Warren Beatty apparently
ga ga
See Joan standing in front of phalliccorvette Stiff suffragettist daughter At 82
veins gnarly +purple Garish misshapen tendrils Arms more like the legs of a
Blue Heron than a woman’s Not majestic anymore But not to be confused with
diapered moustachioed crones I’ve known
Joan is whippetquick Brainteaser of the cocky breezy octogenarian school Such
women are few Many compatriots sit hands unbusy waiting My own plan is to
drop down on all 4’s +scurry into a brambled ditch one day Let’s say at 76 when
it will be time to walk into the wilderness As Neolithic crones did their bones +
totems all over Old Europe
My ossuary will contain: 1 hot pink skull by Betsy Johnson degenerated discs C4
through 6 Arthritic knee debris +a well made brainstem used to unlock the
mysteries of Jung + Jim Morrison Bad boys in shallow graves up the road
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We are imperfect mortal beings. Aware of that mortality. So wired, that when we
mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were.
As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all. Joan Didion 2005
FALL 2017
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