Let Us Touch Your Sword
The five of us fish
in Micronesia. But we are one:
We have
Marilyn’s’ lipsticked face
her breezy sex appeal
We have
become her multiplied-- five sirens
stamped and printed,
Saying See Us Please
Andy Warhol printed Marilyn Monroe’s
face in silkscreen over and over and we
are that That Icon
We lean over the boat
Pose like pinups.
letting the breeze
carry skirts and scarves
letting it all
float and hum over the warm sea.
Marilyn sang Happy Birthday to Jack,
and we sing to the sailfish,
King of the Ocean
love you, love, come here, love you mighty sail fish, let us touch, your sword
The Sailfish hears us, swims to us, we lure him up, we pull him in, lift him over!
Let it be stamped on silk
Let it be said---We five, We sexy sirens lipsticked up
That one, this one, that one, this one, And We
Caught
The biggest fish ever in these South Seas!
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Fabulous again....how wonderful that you started this...I'm still waking up....so I'll never be a morning person....I am who I am....
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I give you so much credit because you see that.....
Perspective ...my art teacher knew the De Niro family....Robert Sr. is an artist and he actually remembers him selling a painting to get braces for Robert Jr. the now famous actor....it all starts with one step......
I always think of Rosa Parks....maybe that day she just said fuck it...I'm sitting and not getting up...and she changed history...I love Rosa....she is awesome...
who are the other awesome people on yur list...maybe even a list poem
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