The Girl in the Window
We stopped to look at
a poster
of Marilyn Monroe
standing on a beach somewhere
her back to the breakers
I remembered
the playground at school
the day after she died
when I was an eleven year old boy
The man in the store
told me
it was one of the last photos taken
I went back out to the
sidewalk
where Becky was hugging herself
against the cold
just like Norma Jean
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©1997 Larry Thoren/ from "Jimmy
and the Runaway"
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