Tuesday, February 14, 2023

It /Not It

                                                 

  

starlight filters down

morning
in
Kansas
in
1906
 
for unto us is born this day
    a little chickadee
 
sudden screams in the Puritan night
(screeeEEEEECHH!!!!!!!)
 
send no Flowers
 
so hie, girl, to the Western hills,
hie thou, then, to the Eastern forests
on long, long roads
 
flickers
 
Lulu conquistadora
 
friends + lovers
 
(love?)
 
 
say,
what's all that flashing over there?
lightning? cameras?
 
media circus
men in the millions
high up, two women
on the dais of santorum (eww!)
by the palace of Hollywood
 
"is it her?-
is it her?-
does she have 'It'?" 
 
"Brooklyn baby!
oh you kid!"
 
"give us a smile, girlie!
no, pout! pout!
smolder! 
smolder!
pose!
pose!
 
SMILE, DAMMIT!!"


Mrs. Glyn coughs loudly

silence

with haughty benedictions
she adorns the girl
with the yoni crown
stol'n from Zuleika Dobson
  at MagicCon

cheers!
screams!
frenzies!
fappings!

o
men
 
the girl on the dais
smiles (genuinely) and waves to our heroine
who replies in kind
 
they all pivot to her
to male gaze,
to salivate and idolize

"yeh,
she's a looker, alright,
a dish,
a beaut,

a lulu

but she ain't got 'It'.
she ain't the 'It' goil."
 
huh 
nowaitHUH?!

she
strutted through
the fires of two Babylons

she
broke thousands of hearts,
launched a million bob cuts
 
she
when trapped under grim presses
and Death offered her flowers
arranged in a black bottle,
spat in its ashy Muench-en face


RAH-chester!!!
and a tome smart and savage
 
but did she share my grandma's hosp. rm.
in 1979? (no, 
                I wish)
 
 
 
we are all Roman candles 
but she 
and also 'she'
live and play in celluloid
shimmering starshine 
for themselves
and for all of us


always


 
DB/2.2023
 
 
Music: "Pandora's Box" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)

Happy Valentine's Day, Dear Hearts!💕

               
 
 
 

 

 

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