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Marilyn Monroe's skirt in The Seven Year Itch, 1955: cropped screenshot from film trailer by Kasper, 2006
First Marilyn Monroe memory
involves being in back seat of car
driven by youthful friend's father, who
tells joke that hinges on proposition
that even if Marilyn Monroe
were bald, etc. We are on Congress Street
driving west around Wabash, I think,
since we are passing Minsky's Burlesque.
The entire past, viewed in black and white,
inspires sensation of having dirt
under collar, sleazy dim subtext.
secret embarrassment, not knowing,
never ceasing to wonder about
and being continually surprised
how anything in nature functions.
involves being in back seat of car
driven by youthful friend's father, who
tells joke that hinges on proposition
that even if Marilyn Monroe
were bald, etc. We are on Congress Street
driving west around Wabash, I think,
since we are passing Minsky's Burlesque.
The entire past, viewed in black and white,
inspires sensation of having dirt
under collar, sleazy dim subtext.
secret embarrassment, not knowing,
never ceasing to wonder about
and being continually surprised
how anything in nature functions.
Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return, 1954: screenshot from film trailer by Liorek, 2009
Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return, 1954: screenshot from film trailer by Liorek, 2009