The iconic Marlene Monroe? She does write poetry? More educated than many actresses
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Iconic Marlene Monroe? She does write poetry?
Here are 5 particularly poignant fragments from the book.
On travelling by bus to Salinas:
I was the only person
woman with about
Sixty Italian fisherman…such charming gentleman…
And (they hoped) fish were
Waiting for them.
Some could hardly speak English.
Not only do I love Greeks (illegible)
I love Italians.
They’re warm, lusty and friendly as hell—
I’d love to go to Italy someday
On sailors:
I saw a lot of lonely young sailors
Who looked too young to be so sad.
They reminded me of
young slender trees still growing and painful
On trees:
Sad sweet trees—
I wish for you—rest
but you must be wakeful
On love:
My love sleeps besides me—
in the faint light…
but he will look like this when he is dead
Oh unbearable fact inevitable
yet sooner would I rather his love die
than/or him?
And marriage:
I guess I have always been
deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife
since I know from life
one cannot love another,
ever, really
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