Marilyn

MEDITATIONS IN A NIAGARA EMERGENCY

          
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“Am I to become 
profligate as if I 
were a blonde?”
—for FRANK O'HARA
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Each time my heart gets broken—
I pretend I’m just Marilyn Monroe
In the NIAGARA Clock Tower

Vindictive Joseph Cotton—
Strangling me to death with
My purse spilling across the floor
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My lipstick, my eye shadow—
My compact mirror, my various
And sundry Trojan Rubbers

It used to make me feel—
Seductive, the interminable list
Of lost lovers gone tres bad